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____/ Mark Kent on Monday 17 November 2008 12:01 : \____
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Richard Rasker on Sunday 16 November 2008 22:09 : \____
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>>> Here I am, with my little business, dumping some 30% of my modest annual
>>> profits into the great big pot "for the common good". I have no real
>>> problems with that -- I find that good health care, education, old-age
>>> benefits etcetera quite make up for it, although I hate the idea that a
>>> part of that money is used to build more roads and demolish what little
>>> nature we have left here. Ah well, you can't have it all.
>>>
>>> One would expect Microsoft to pay a nice tax sum as well -- after all,
>>> they're making billions, and Microsod and the BSA are always blabbering
>>> about how using Microsoft crap^H^H^H^Hsoftware and fighting piracy is "good
>>> for the economy" etcetera. AND Bill Gates is blabbering about all the
>>> charity that Microsoft does, push^H^H^H^Hgiving away free software "worth
>>> billions" ...
>>>
>>> Turns out that these parasitic bastards use a tax avoidance scam by
>>> funneling all their profits through Ireland, in effect paying only €460.000
>>> in taxes over annual UK profits exceeding € 1.2 billion, in effect paying
>>> only 0,04% in taxes.
>>>
>>> http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2008/05/04/microsoft-tax-avoider/
>>>
>>> It's sickening. In my opinion, every self-respecting (and tax-paying!)
>>> business should be making plans to abandon the products of these greedy
>>> bloodsuckers, who just take money and give nothing back.
>>>
>>> Richard Rasker
>>
>> Richard,
>>
>> In case you are curious, I've accumulated many more examples and analysis
>> under:
>>
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2008/10/22/microsoft-influence-ireland-uk/
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/30/microsoft-number-one-lobbyist/
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/27/iowa-tax-microsoft-collusion/
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/12/23/microsoft-dirty-cashy-secret/
>>
>
> The government has recently stated that it will be chasing companies
> avoiding paying tax. I wonder if they'll be chasing Microsoft?
The Indian government has. They found Microsoft guilty and liable to pay tax.
Microsoft, in turn, did not pay (yet) and a recent article said that they
failed to explain why. I base this on memory, but it's in one of the
accumulations above. The latest article is about a month old.
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~~ Best of wishes
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