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● 08.06.09

●● Microsoft Keeps Running from the Law… and from Tax

Posted in America, Deception, Finance, Microsoft at 7:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: The company behind “Windows tax” is not interested in paying income tax

THE last time we wrote about Microsoft's systematic tax evasion was this post about Dublin. The short story was that Microsoft’s considerations when building datacentres are as much political as they are technical. So this relocation too seems to fit a familiar pattern.

=> Microsoft's systematic tax evasion | this post about Dublin | ↺ this relocation too | a familiar pattern

“Due to a change in local tax laws, we’ve decided to migrate Windows Azure applications out of our northwest data center prior to our commercial launch this November,” the company says on the Windows Azure blog.

As Mary-Jo Foley’s headline put it, “Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state.”

=> ↺ “Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state.”

It says it all really. These stories of Microsoft tax evasions have become so repetitive that they are tiresome and predictable by now. █

“My background is finance and accounting. As a socially conscious venture capitalist and philanthropist, I have a very good understanding of wealth management and philanthropy. I started my career in 1967 with the IRS as a specialist in taxation covering many areas of the tax law including the so-called legal loopholes to charitable giving. […] However, the Gates Buffet foundation grant is nothing more than a shell game in which control of assets for both Gates and Buffet remain the same. […] The only difference is that the accumulation of wealth by these two will be much more massive because they will no longer have to pay any taxes.”

The Gates and Buffet Foundation Shell Game

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