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by karpierz 1898 days ago
I should be clearer. I don't mean corporate taxes, I mean capital gains. Ghanaian engineers will produce intellectual capital for Twitter, whose value will be primarily sent back to the United States.
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On other hand those engineers get wages which are taxed and spend on local economy. So I think that side is positive, even if intellectual capital is moved. Now if local market share will be lost to big international companies, that is certainly negative for a country.
They also get experience, exposure and connections that they can leverage to grow the local economy over the course of their careers.