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Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

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Re: Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

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Isn't the US levying corporate tax on worlwide income anyway (since the last tax reform).

So it's "only" a matter of deciding whether those taxes should be paid in US vs. other countries (and if the intellectual property was developped mostly in the US, it seems fair for the US to get most of it).

Re: Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

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post #4

Isn't the US levying corporate tax on worlwide income anyway (since the last tax reform). So it's "only" a matter of deciding whether those taxes should be paid in US vs. other countries (and if the intellectual property was developped mostly in the US, it seems fair for the US to get most of it).

That isn't fair at all.

If you're opening a location in another country, and that location takes X in revenue, the tax should be paid in that country.

Why on earth do you think its fair for US based organizations to spread across the globe, reap the huge profits from that but funnel all the cash back into the US?

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