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Ecuador Tax Agency Closes Microsoft Branch Offices

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the time-to-sniff-the-paper-trail dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Ecuador Tax Agency (SRI) has closed Microsoft branch offices for seven days. 'We have twice requested balances, payment reports and complete tax information, but the company hasn't given it to us, so in accordance with our laws we have proceeded with the closure,' the SRI official in charge of the proceeding said. Microsoft said it was a human mistake."

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  1. OUTRAGE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ecuador holds dominion over the Galapagos Islands. Who made the Galapagos famous? That's right, Darwin... Which happens to be the name of Apple's OS Kernel. COINCIDENCE?

  2. Ha! by milo_a_wagner · · Score: 5, Funny

    All your branches are belong to us!

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  3. Excel by MK_CSGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cue in the Excel jokes just about... now!

  4. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Microsoft closes tax offices.

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia... by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny

      As opposed to Soviet Korporate Amerika, where Microsoft taxes YOU!

      In such a context,

      1. couldn't running linux be considered somewhat equivalent to the Boston Tea Party? Or would that be running a pirated copy of Windows?

      2. could running a pirated copy of Windows, in the current "Corporatist" environment, be considered a political statement, and as such, be "protected speech", same as flag burning?

  5. Human error by wjcofkc · · Score: 2, Funny

    It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been attributable to human error

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  6. A human mistake by NJVil · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Microsoft said it was a human mistake."

    Well, it's highly unlikely they'd admit it was a technology mistake. So, a head will roll, a chair will be thrown, and full faith in Microsoft technology will return to normal in Ecuador.

    1. Re:A human mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      will the head roll before or after the chair is thrown, one would have hoped that ballmer has improved his aim

  7. tax evasion by ClippySay · · Score: 5, Funny

    / You look like you're trying to evade \
    \ taxes. May I help you?               /
         \
          \
           \     ____
            \   / __ \
             \  O|  |O|
                ||  | |
                ||  | |
                ||    |
                 |___/

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  8. Feel good yet? by moehoward · · Score: 1, Funny


    The entire story by my beloved Slashdot editor, Cowboyneal, should be modded as flamebait.

    My god. How freaking petty to post such dribble on the front page of Slashdot as we celebrate the 10 year anniversary.

    Yeah. MS is purposefully trying to rip off freaking Ecuador. What is the implication? Rwanda is next on their "hit list?"

    How embarrassing, Cowboyneal. I shall withhold my Cowboyneal vote on the next two polls in retaliation. Next time, RTFA and then look for more sources on Google News.

    There are hundreds of countries in the world with thousands of oversight entities. Every single hour/minute, some company gets this sort of "parking ticket." But, feels good when you are a UPS driver and you see that parking ticket on a Fed-Ex truck when you pull up. Right?

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  9. Re:Celebrity Section for Slashdot? by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny

    > "Bill Gates gets a fashion makeover - image slideshow"

    They already tried that in the '80s. Didn't work then ... won't work now.

    He was posing for a cover shot for newsweek. He held up something, and you could see the hole in his sweaters' armpit. So they had him take off the sweater. Then you got to see the pit stains on his shirt. They had to literally take the shirt off another Microsoft employee's back to get a "clean shot."

    "Stinkin' nerdz!"

  10. Re:First Time by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 3, Funny

    The first time it may have been a "human" mistake. Second time, I do not think so.

    Maybe the first person who made the mistake was fired, and the replacement also happened to make the same mistake.

    That's not giving Microsoft the benefit of doubt, I'm thinking of how many times they make the same mistakes over and over, almost like it's company policy.

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  11. Also by jeffasselin · · Score: 4, Funny

    in completely unrelated news, Microsoft announced that every copy of Windows trying to validate with WGA from Ecuador was found to be non-genuine. The affected systems have started zeroing the data on their hard drives.

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  12. Matrix by weirdcrashingnoises · · Score: 3, Funny

    MS Agent: Only human.
    Ecuador: Dodge this.

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