If it&#x27;s too onerous, then don&#x27;t trade there. Simple. Facebook is welcome to abandon Europe if paying fair tax is not to it&#x27;s liking. Something else will rise in it&#x27;s place.<p>It&#x27;s like the arguments against the Australian MRRT for the mining industry - a tax that only kicked in if you were making 5% or more profits[1]. &quot;The miners will go to other countries!&quot; was the shrill cry from the mining industry. Uh, no they won&#x27;t, and not just because the resources are physically here. As long as it&#x27;s still reasonably profitable, companies will keep doing business in a location.<p>[1] In a monumentally bad bit of PR, the initial public-sell name for the Minerals Rent Resource Tax was... drumroll... the Super Tax.