While the focus of this discussion here is on the taxes, I think the bigger story is the unethical behaviour of companies like Intuit. And its not only Intuit,

While the focus of this discussion here is on the taxes, I think the bigger story is the unethical behaviour of companies like Intuit. And its not only Intuit, but also companies like SAP [1] that engage in such behaviour at the cost of tax payers. The finanical might takes away so much from the commons and also pushes back adoption of good Open Source software. We constantly under-estimate the damage done by these mega-corps. [1] http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2015/08/12/former-sap-executive-pleads-guilty-to-bribery-charge/ http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2015/08/12/former-sap... [2] http://www.iafrikan.com/2017/02/21/sap-south-africas-managing-director-implicated-in-alleged-38-million-sap-licenses-purchasing-and-kickback-scandal/ http://www.iafrikan.com/2017/02/21/sap-south-africas-managin...