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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)

Philip writes:

Bing is a web search engine owned by Microsoft. Bing directly competes with Google and Bing also owns another well known search engine, Yahoo. Together these two minnows feast off the crumbs of search engine giants Google. And it seems little has changed. We spotted a Microsoft PAID advert on page one of a Google search result for ‘online marketing’ only moments ago. Bow your heads in shame Microsoft.


Microsoft Caught Advertising On Google (Lucidity.ie)