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‘Bridge to Microsoft’ Is One of Puget Sound Prizes in Stimulus
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| Microsoft Corp., which has $20 billion of cash in the bank, is among the
| first in the Puget Sound area to benefit from the investment in roads and
| bridges through President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan.
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| Local planners allotted $11 million of $214 million awarded to the region to
| help pay for a highway overpass in Redmond, Washington, connecting one part
| of Microsoft’s wooded campus with another. The world’s largest software maker
| will contribute almost half of the $36.5 million cost. Other federal and
| local money will pay the rest.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=MSFT%3AUS&sid=aT9qd5b61LgU
'Bridge to Microsoft' Gets Federal Stimulus Funds
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| "Among the first to benefit from the investment in roads and bridges through
| Obama's stimulus plan is Microsoft, which has $20B in the bank. Local
| planners have allotted $11M to help pay for a highway overpass to connect one
| part of Microsoft's wooded campus with another. Microsoft will contribute
| almost half of the $36.5M cost; other federal and local money will pay the
| rest. 'Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates could finance this out of pocket change,'
| griped Steve Ellis of the Taxpayers for Common Sense. 'Subsidizing an
| overpass to one of the richest companies in the country certainly isn't going
| to be the best use of our precious dollars.' Ellis called the project 'a
| bridge to Microsoft,' alluding to Alaska's infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere'."
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http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=3760053
Recent:
Microsoft Ireland slashes US dividend as profits rise
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| The dividend payment is roughly half the almost €3bn the Irish subsidiary
| remitted to the US headquarters in the financial year ended June 2006.
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http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/microsoft-ireland-slashes-us-dividend-as-profits-rise-1364208.html
Microsoft in tax evasion soup
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| Software major Microsoft Corp’s Indian subsidiary has been issued a
| show-cause notice for non-payment of service tax worth Rs 127 crore. The tax
| has been claimed on services offered to Microsoft Singapore by way of
| marketing support.
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http://infotech.indiatimes.com/Microsoft_in_tax_evasion_soup/rssarticleshow/2977840.cms
Tax benefit helped Microsoft's 3Q earnings
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| Turns out Microsoft and Uncle Sam have been going back through the company's
| books from 2000 to 2003. Not knowing how that would end up, Microsoft
| had "over accrued" its tax provision in past quarters, said Colleen Healy,
| general manager of investor relations. With the review settled, the company
| was able to reduce that provision.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004377713_btdownload28.html
Microsoft Leads in Lobbying Largesse
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| Microsoft is leading the tech industry’s charge up Capitol Hill, according to
| statistics released Monday.
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| The world's largest software company spent $9 million on lobbyists to make
| its case in issues including taxes and trade, according to statistics
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| compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
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http://www.redherring.com/Home/24187
Related:
Wis. Bill to Require Tax Loophole Data
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| Wisconsin Bill Would Require More Reporting on Tax Loopholes
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| [...]
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| A message left with Microsoft was not immediately returned.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071219/wi_corporate_taxes.html?.v=4
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
Bill Gates: Rich Individuals Should Pay More Tax, Wealthy Corporations Less?
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| As Taxing Tennessee points out, Bill Gates opposes eliminating the death tax
| but is quite happy to have local and state taxes eliminated for his
| company...
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/65465-bill-gates-rich-individuals-should-pay-more-tax-wealthy-corporations-less?source=yahoo
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| My background is finance and accounting....
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| However, the Gates Buffet foundation grant is nothing more than a shell
| game in which control of assets for both Gates and Buffet remain the same.
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| THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH BY THESE TWO WILL BE
| MUCH MORE MASSIVE BECAUSE THEY WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO PAY ANY TAXES.
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http://www.mail-archive.com/futurew...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg03323.html
Microsoft EULA lands it with $175m Indian tax headache
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| Basing its ruling on the terms of Microsoft's own EULA (end-user license
| agreement), an Indian court has ordered the company to pay tax on royalty
| income generated in the country, Tax India Online (TIOL) reports.
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| [...]
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| “Unacceptable tax avoidance typically involved the creation of complex
| artificial structures by which, as though by the wave of a magic wand, the
| tax payer conjures out of the air a loss, or a gain, or expenditure, or
| whatever it may be, which otherwise would never have existed. These
| structures are designed to achieve an adventitious tax benefit for the
| taxpayer, and in truth are no more than raids on the public funds at the
| expense of the general body of taxpayers, and as such are unacceptable.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/31/microsoft_india_tax_ruling/
Cheers not jeers to Speaker Chopp on the Microsoft tax concession
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| The Columbia Basin Herald this past week characterized House Speaker Frank
| Chopp as being a Forrest Gump, "stupid is as stupid does" villain for
| opposing big proposed tax breaks for Microsoft and Yahoo. The tax concession,
| those companies said, were necessary to keep them from fleeing Grant County,
| where they have huge server farms. The requests were similar to the $3.2
| billion in breaks Boeing Co. got from Governor Gary Locke and the Legislature
| when it threatened to take some of its assembly operations elsewhere.
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http://www.crosscut.com/business-technology/12933/Cheers+not+jeers+to+Speaker+Chopp+on+the+Microsoft+tax+concession/
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