Tax Accounting Evil at Google?

theodp writes "In its annual report, Google said it's done no tax-accounting evil, but the search giant acknowledged that both the IRS and SEC are taking a look at the way in which it accounts for income tax. Google is one of a number of U.S. companies that have come under fire for allegedly practicing 'profit laundering', i.e., moving book profits offshore to evade millions and even billions in taxes to the country where it really operates. In past SEC filings, Google has credited its Irish subsidiary for reducing its effective tax rate."

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While I doubt that this is a case of Civil Disobedience, you are correct it's not evil. But it's so much fun to label any non-wonderful Google practice as "evil" because of their "do no evil" ideal.