Microsoft - Tax

Microsoft was found guilty of tax evasion in India and Microsoft avoids paying tax in other countries too. Here are only some of our posts about this important subject.

United States

 * IRS Reveals That Microsoft Effectively Stole Tens of Billions of Dollars of Public Money Using a Network of Tax Havens
 * Microsoft Illegally Evades Billions of Dollars in Tax, Says IRS
 * Microsoft Wastes Taxpayers' Money by Fighting IRS After Evading Tax for Decades
 * US Government Finally Probes Microsoft Over Financial Fraud, Microsoft Then Bullies the Government With a Lawsuit
 * Microsoft Inside the US Government Enables Tax Escapism
 * Waggener Edstrom and Microsoft’s Government Insider Defend the Company’s Reluctance to Pay Tax
 * Tax Dodger Microsoft Wants Linux to Pay Microsoft Tax for Storage Devices
 * Call for Federal Action Against Microsoft (and Gates) Tax Dodge
 * Microsoft Crawls Into Bed With Washington, Seattle Times Still in Denial
 * Microsoft’s Home State is Running Out of Money While Microsoft Avoids Paying Tax
 * Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment With Tax and Cronies
 * Microsoft Hires in Areas of Tax Dodging and Offshoring
 * Microsoft Moves to Reno to Avoid Regular Tax and to India to Avoid Regular Salaries
 * Summary of Microsoft Tax Evasion Stories
 * Former Microsoft General Manager ‘Infects’ the Debt-saddled Washington Administration, Helps Microsoft Dodge Tax
 * Patents Roundup: Patent Curses, Patent Fallacies, Tax Loopholes
 * Microsoft Debt and Tax Evasion
 * Gates/Microsoft Tax Dodge and Agriculture Monopoly Revisited
 * Microsoft the Tax Evader Wants Taxpayers to Spend Billions Building It a Bridge, Hires PR/Lobbyists
 * Microsoft Denounced Again by Former Employee for Not Paying Washington Tax; Bill Gates Increases Washington (DC) Influence
 * Number One Lobbyist Gets Tax Breaks, Government Deals, Innocent Children
 * New Cartoon: How Microsoft Robs the Nation
 * Microsoft, a Notorious Tax Evader, Takes Money from Taxpayers to Help Its Own Business (Updated)
 * References Roundup: Microsoft’s Financial Situation
 * Microsoft Obeys Communism, Not Capitalism
 * Bill Gates — Just Like Microsoft — Incompatible With Tax Law
 * Bill Gates Sr. Lobbies to Keep Tax Agenda Off Gates’ Tax Exemptions and Microsoft’s Tax Evasion
 * Microsoft Receives More Tax Exemptions (for Data Centres), Leeway on Environmental Issues
 * Tax-Free Financial Gain at Microsoft Assisted by Governor Gregoire
 * Microsoft Issues More Debt, Pays Almost No Tax
 * More Microsoft Debt, Legalised Tax Evasion, and Investment in the SCO Case
 * What Microsoft Wants Gregoire Gives
 * More Microsoft Antitrust and Tax Evasion, Legalised by Former Microsoft Management (Ross Hunter) in the Government
 * Steve Ballmer Lobbies to Pay Less Tax
 * Microsoft Bribes and Tax Avoidance
 * Tax-Exempt Gates Family Still Lobbies to Tax Its Peers Even More
 * Yet More Microsoft Staff (Now Suzan DelBene) Enters Government to Assist Microsoft’s Looting of the System
 * Bill Gates Forms Government Connections to Avoid Paying Tax and Further Exploit the System
 * Executive Director of The Economic Opportunity Institute Slams Microsoft for Not Paying Tax
 * Microsoft Refuses to Explain Avoidance of Tax After Putting Staff in Government
 * Microsoft and Gates: Avoiding Tax, Buying Consent
 * Microsoft’s Tax Cheats a Story of Government Corruption
 * Senator Carl Levin Goes After Microsoft for Avoiding Tax
 * Microsoft Financial and Accounting Tricks Investigated by US Senate
 * Microsoft Taxing Android While Avoiding Government Tax
 * Microsoft’s Massive Tax Evasion Becomes Better Known

Europe

 * Microsoft Betrays American Workers and Rewards Irish Workers for Tax Haven
 * Microsoft’s Dublin DC Could be Indicative of the Notorious Tax Evasion Conspiracy
 * Microsoft Influence on Ireland and the United Kingdom
 * The Seattle Times Finally Questions Microsoft’s Political Games for Tax Avoidance
 * Microsoft “Paying No Dividend at All”
 * Cablegate: Microsoft’s Tax Dodge
 * Tax-Evading Gates Accuses Tax Evaders of Causing Poverty, Microsoft Still Evades Tax Too
 * Microsoft Stole A Billion Dollars From Denmark
 * Bill Gates — Not Just Microsoft — Stole Millions From Irish Taxpayers, US Taxpayers Still Robbed by Corruption of Microsoft Moles
 * Amid Financial Misconduct Microsoft Fights Against Basic Tech Rights, Obviously in an Attempt to Squeeze Out More Money