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The Netherlands just handed its VAT system to an American company.. Not just the software. The servers, the maintenance, all run remotely from the US. €1.5B a week in tax revenue as a managed service from across the Atlantic. Bert Hubert calls it “BTW-as-a-service.”

Europe talks a lot about digital sovereignty while outsourcing the plumbing. I looked at the same dynamic in payments, where the EuroPA alliance is at least building European rails instead of just complaining about it: https://philippdubach.com/posts/europes-24-trillion-payment-...