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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 28 2013 @ 04:51 AM EDT |
The Irish Prime Minister said more or less the same thing. When he told an
international audience that it was not countries with low taxes but countries
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| Authored by: complex_number on Tuesday, May 28 2013 @ 01:20 PM EDT |
He was on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Start the Week' yesterday. I listened to
it as I was stuck in a traffic jam in Wales. There were no set questions and he
gave as good as he got. I would dare to say that Mr Balmer could not have done
so well. Well done Eric, it was very entertaining.
He repeated several times that it is the responisibity of Governments to set the
tax laws and that Google (inc) had a fiduciary duty to its shareholders to
maximise income.
IANAA (I am not an accountant) but it seems to me that the latter obligation
could almost force companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple etc to try to legally
avoid paying taxes wherever they operate.
If the duty was on the company to pay their taxes first and shareholders second
would it be any different? Perhaps not but I don't know.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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