Taxation is to be expected. How much or how little can be debated. The part I am missing is how, if MS bought an entire company for $1.8B+ and then sold a soft

Taxation is to be expected. How much or how little can be debated. The part I am missing is how, if MS bought an entire company for $1.8B+ and then sold a software title from that company to a subsidiary, that they should owe $1B+ in taxes. I would assume the company Navision had many more assets than just the rights to this software: property, cash, etc. At best, it sounds like major overreach by the Danish government. At worst, as you say, it is attempted armed robbery just because it is MS and they have money.