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Microsoft Ireland MD Paul Rellis.

And you thought they were here for the weather?

Using complex schemes to shift U.S. revenue overseas, Microsoft was able to avoid paying taxes on $21 billion in revenue between 2009 and 2011, amounting to about half its total U.S. sales, according to the subcommittee report. The company avoided paying $4.5 billion in taxes, or about $4 million per day, during that time, according to the report.

Using similar schemes, Apple avoided taxes on $34.5 billion between 2009 and 2011, and Google has dodged taxes on $24 billion.

 

Nice.

Tech Firms Find Havens From US Taxes (San Fransisco Chronicle)

US Senate panel slams Microsoft’s ‘tax gimmickry’ in Ireland, Singapore and Puerto Rico (FinFacts)

 

Australian ESPN presenter Russ ‘The Sportsguy’ Barwick expounds his theories on Team GB and Irish sport on his show ‘Pardon The Interruption’. A snippet:

It’s like a Hawaiian surfer not claiming that he doesn’t surf for the USA…

Sit down, strap in (five point safety harness recommended) and go to 4:00

Previously: Preferring “A Punch To A Potato”

(Thanks John Peavoy)

Kenan İmirzalıoğlu (Left), Colin Farrell and Burak Özçivit.

From The National Turk:

A joint production of Turkish-Irish film sector will depict the story of the Ottoman Empire’s aid to Ireland during the great famine period in Ireland between 1845 and 1851. World-famous actors Sean Bean and Colin Farrell are in the cast of Famine.

The most traumatic and sorrowful period in Ireland’s history, known as the Great Hunger and the great Famine will be brought into the silver screen, but this time it will tell the story of little-known aspect.

A new film at early production stage will depict the story of how the Ottoman Empire sent aid to the emerald isle in Ireland at great potato famine in 1845 which claimed nearly 1 million lives.

‘Famine’ shooting is set to start in October and the film will be shot in Ireland and Turkey with a $50 million budget and its cast will include noted Irish actors like Sean Bean, Colin Farrell as well as several Turkish movie stars including Burak Özçivit. and Kenan İmirzalıoğlu.