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> As with any company anyehere, De Beers pays the share they are obliged to to the authorities

BP and Facebook aren't paying their share of taxes in the USA, do you think De Beers is going to do so in Sierra Leone?

The only difference is there are just enough tax dollars in the US to make life tolerable for the masses - cheap beer & cigarettes, sports on TV and elementary education.

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Cheap beer and cigarettes are not provided for by tax dollars though.

BP and Facebook probably don't pay much tax in Australia either, where beer and cigarettes are not particularly cheap (mostly due to sin taxes)

BP and Facebook aren't paying their share of taxes in the USA, do you think De Beers is going to do so in Sierra Leone?

Do you have any evidence that thy aren't?

Or do you just make things up?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2018-taxes-some-of-americas-big...

BP Actually get tax credits, as does Amazon. So they pay negative taxes.

And how, pray tell, do the incentives of a British oil company in another part of the world automagically imply the guilt of an African mining company in SL?

Or is guilt by association the new thing these days?

Show me where De Beers is not paying what the government of SL requires them to pay.

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