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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. Public Prophet and Private Profit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What about the property Richard Stallman is squatting in. Isn't the value of that taxable? In which case, why isn't the IRS chasing him for back taxes and income tax evasion? If we're going to start getting legally picky why the big harrah over a big corporation like Microsoft making a mistake and the very, very delibrate actions of an individual like Stallman go by without a mutter?

  2. Re:No special treatment. by wclacy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Wrong, This is the treatment you get if you are a Large American Business.
    Ecuador just got a new Anti-American President.
    In Ecuador there are so many small businesses (There is a store on every street corner) that they can only enforce taxes on the large companies.
    In Ecuador you can buy Pirated Movies and CD's just about anywhere. No taxes on them either.