As a point of reference, GE employs about 1000 people in it's tax department (http://www.propublica.org/article/5-ways-ge-plays-the-tax-game http://www.propubli

As a point of reference, GE employs about 1000 people in it's tax department (http://www.propublica.org/article/5-ways-ge-plays-the-tax-game http://www.propublica.org/article/5-ways-ge-plays-the-tax-ga...), although to be fair, according to other reports the returns they file are about 57,000 pages in length.