____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 01 April 2008 19:42 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft is poor (approaching debt actually). Why should it pay tax?
>> Let the others pay.
>
> Microsoft's history of tax evasion is already well known and documented:
>
> .----
> | Microsoft has, according to reports on Irish website FinFacts,
> | decided to re-register Round Island One as an unlimited company.
> | Which means it will no longer have to file its accounts in Ireland
> | for public inspection but will retain all the benefits of its
> | structure.
> `----
>
>
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2006/07/10/microsoft-does-tax-avoidance-in-secret/
There was another recent story about missing roughly half a billion dollars
because Microsoft moves its taxes to a particular US state. It was also
mentioned in Slashdot.
Financially, Microsoft isn't doing too well (compared to past days), but it
sure gives an /illusion/. I reckon that amid OOXML crimes it also goes all the
way with AstroTurfing (the two are related) and hopes that will save it.
Prepare for a "new" Microsoft (a much more criminal Microsoft that is) just
before its IBMisation.
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