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It is not at all that cut and dried. Engaging in sham business activity for the specific purpose of tax avoidance is not legal. Many of these tax schemes could
by saas_co_de 9y ago
It is not at all that cut and dried.
Engaging in sham business activity for the specific purpose of tax avoidance is not legal. Many of these tax schemes could be declared invalid at the discretion of the IRS (or other governments - the EU already has in some cases).
These companies are not complying with tax law. They are cheating and paying bribes or doing favors to get away with it, and everyone knows it.
- refurb 9y agoRight, that would be non-compliance as the OP already pointed out.
- compiler-guy 9y agoThese companies are paying the minimum amount of taxes that they can make a reasonable legal case to pay for. They have armies of lawyers that check and recheck the scheme. Yes, there are many judgement calls, and as with all judgement calls, there may be differences of opinion. But you can bet that they all believe that they can make a strong case that they are within the law.
- notliketherest 9y agoLOL saas_co_de accuses Google of engaging in a sham business.
- dang 9y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- notliketherest 9y agoFuck you and your bubble world.