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Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS(appleinsider.com)

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Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS::The IRS sent a surprise bill to Microsoft, hitting the company with a $28.9 billion bill for back taxes and penalties spanning a decade, starting in 2003.

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iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world
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Corporations are not people, fuck them up.

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bastion@feddit.nl
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Even if we treat then like people, they easily deserve that (and some criminal charges) for circumventing tax law.

If organizations are treated like people, they must be accountable to the law in a proportional way.

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Dissolve them. That fucked country still has fucking death penalty.

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