Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break

NewsCloud writes "Microsoft makes products in Washington but records software sales to PC makers and high-volume customers through an operation in Nevada, where there is no corporate tax. So Washington has missed out on more than half a billion in taxes; revenue it could use for badly needed infrastructure needs — such as the needed replacement of the 520 bridge which connects Seattle ... to Microsoft. Reported by Slashdot in 2004, the numbers have increased with the company's growth to approx. $76M in savings last year alone. The author questions the legality of the practice given Microsoft's 35,500+ employees and 11.2 million square feet of real estate in Washington state."

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Questions the Legality

[trongey]

..author questions the legality of the practice...

While we're at it, somebody should question the legality of mindless editors posting flamebait stories written by clueless authors for the sole purpose of driving hits to a website.
How much Crosscut.com stock does Taco own anyway?

Re:You eat the food, you pay the bill

[Hatta]

If you don't want to pay the bill, don't make use of the services. If you don't agree to pay taxes, go live somewhere else, you have no right to live here.

Hey, I was born here! I have every right to be here that you do. What makes you think you have the right to tell me to pay up or leave my native land? If you want to levy taxes, YOU move!

Re:You do have a contract

[spun]

Oh, so you think that if you can't get the choice you want, the rest of us are somehow obliged to provide it for you? There is no country you can go to that won't tax you, therefore the US should give you the option not to pay taxes? No restaurant has free lobster, either, you think that entitles you to free lobster? Not only are you retarded, it sounds as though you have the morals of a thief. You want all the benefits of living in a first world country with non of the responsibilities. Thankfully, retards like you don't run the country, or, in fact, any country in the world, because no one but a retard is dumb enough to think your retarded ideas would ever work.