How a slick accounting maneuver led to a $29 billion tax bill for Microsoft
(finance.yahoo.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Oct 2023 12:00
https://lemmy.world/post/6878278
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Oct 2023 12:00
https://lemmy.world/post/6878278
How a slick accounting maneuver led to a $29 billion tax bill for Microsoft::In the largest tax audit in U.S. history, the IRS rejected Microsoft’s efforts to assign profits to a small factory in Puerto Rico.
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We should still celebrate this. For decades the IRS has been committed to the mere appearance of tax enforcement. This signifies a significant investment in corporate enforcement and hopefully has a deterrent effect.
Case in point, in this situation Microsoft originally got the IRS’ approval for this tax scheme. Only after a change in leadership and strategy did the IRS investigate. Next time we at least have hope the IRS won’t approve these schemes in the first place. It’s not perfect but it’s progress.
this just makes all the enshittification even worse: many of these shitty tech companies could make the numbers higher simply by calculating them properly
But we are just a tiny indie company and we can’t keep those thousand of employees so we’re gonna have to lay them off.
Unrelated, we just bought this neat little new trinket, we got a bargain at $68.7 billion dollars. We couldn’t have paid it at full price mind you. We are a small little indie company living paycheck to paycheck.