Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State 681
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."
Dodgy statesmen (Score:5, Funny)
Way to blame microsoft for the state deficit.
Re:more of the same, apparantly (Score:2, Funny)
...because Microsoft is DOING NOTHING WRONG.
I wouldn't say they're doing nothing wrong. ;)
Re:Disappointing though it may be... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Enough (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dodgy statesmen (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.
Re:To hell with BIG GOVERNMENT (Score:3, Funny)
What else would the come up next? Tax on taxes?
Don't think it hasn't been seriously considered.
Re:To hell with BIG GOVERNMENT (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 !
Re:Dodgy statesmen (Score:3, Funny)
It wasn't about bush, stop smoking the straw on your strawmen.