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Almodóvar, Mungiu, Lelouch, Luc Dardenne, Costa-Gavras, and other elder statesmen of cinema have sounded a call for Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix to start paying their fair share of taxes in Europe https://twitter.com/Cineuropa/status/1272916804193542145
Lest we forget that the Zambian government instituted new tax codes in January because Netflix was funneling so much money out of the local economy ( https://www.africanews.com/2019/10/08/understanding-zambia-s-plans-to-tax-netflix//), or that Indonesia has also done the same ( https://www.developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/telecom-regulation/9555-telecoms-tax-troubles-in-indonesia-and-syria.html)
And would you look at that, the same thing is happening in Poland ( https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/poland-proposes-netflix-tax-amid-calls-for-broader-digital-levy/) and in India ( https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/airbnb-netflix-others-bill-to-rise-with-new-tax/articleshow/74802521.cms)
This is even happening in America, where a new study has woken lawmakers in Louisiana up to the fact that their massive tax breaks for Netflix and other production crews are draining the state coffers instead of filling them: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_c1d98d48-5193-11e9-b6a0-7bc2825afed3.html
Just as their business model is getting significantly harder to sustain, Netflix (which began 2020 with $14.8 bil in debt) has accepted another round of new investors to amass an additional billion: https://www.marketplace.org/2020/04/22/netflix-raises-more-debt-is-it-sustainable/
In conclusion, holy shit I need a healthier hobby than this
