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by alpha42 1855 days ago
> Is the IRS a global institution now?

In their own minds, they always have been.

I also find it funny that a country that can't even level-set taxation within it's own 50 territories wants to dictate taxation for the world now.

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> I also find it funny that a country that can't even level-set taxation within it's own 50 territories wants to dictate taxation for the world now.

Historically that proposal was pushed by EU states and the US wasn't onboard. It's recent development that the US agrees to it.