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Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State

Posted by kdawson on from the office-at-area-fifty-one dept.

newscloud writes "With Washington State facing a billion-dollar biennial budget deficit, the spotlight again shifts to Microsoft's software licensing office in Reno, Nevada. 'Although the majority of its software development is performed in Washington State, Microsoft records its estimated $18 billion in licensing revenue per year through a corporate office in Reno, Nevada where there is no licensing tax. Just by enforcing the state's existing tax law from 2008 onwards, we could reduce Washington's revenue shortfall by more than 70 percent. Alternately, we could pursue the entire $707 million from Microsoft's thirteen years of tax dodging and cover most of the expected deficit going forward.' We have discussed Microsoft's creative capitalism in the past."

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  1. Dodgy statesmen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Way to blame microsoft for the state deficit.

    1. Re:Dodgy statesmen by RoFLKOPTr · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm glad that Slashdot now has a chief economist with such well-considered and comprehensive solutions to the world's problems?

      Thank you, sir. I wear my title with pride.

    2. Re:Dodgy statesmen by agnosticnixie · · Score: 2, Funny

      It wasn't about bush, stop smoking the straw on your strawmen.

  2. Re:more of the same, apparantly by B4D+BE4T · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...because Microsoft is DOING NOTHING WRONG.

    I wouldn't say they're doing nothing wrong. ;)

  3. Re:Disappointing though it may be... by rocker_wannabe · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess someone forgot to tell the CEO's about the corporations not being piggy banks to be raided.

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  4. Re:Enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh my god a ballmer chair throwing joke! So funnay!

  5. Re:To hell with BIG GOVERNMENT by Dreadneck · · Score: 2, Funny

    What else would the come up next? Tax on taxes?

    Don't think it hasn't been seriously considered.

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  6. Re:To hell with BIG GOVERNMENT by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know you hate MS, well, I dislike MS too, but I let my dislike of MS to affect what is right

    A tax on licensing, no matter which party is being taxed, is still plain wrong !

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