____/ 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/
--
~~ Best of wishes
"The collaborative, massively distributed development process behind the
Internet and Open Source projects is not your enemy. It is your friend, the
source of basic research that you can turn into your next generation of
products."
--Tim O’Reilly
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