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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. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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?

  7. 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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