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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Simon Yuill <simon@lipparosa.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Electron Club members <members@electronclub.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sunday, 24 October, 2010 17:04:59<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [ELECTRON] Fwd: Do No Evil: Pay No Taxes<BR></FONT><BR><BR>-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: [Pen-l] Do No Evil: Pay No Taxes<BR><BR>Bloomberg has an excellent article describing how Google saves<BR>billions in taxes. Besides showing how Google constructs its<BR>international network of tax dodges (similar to what other high-tech<BR>companies use), the article discusses how taxes helped to create the<BR>company and how the federal government gave its blessing to the Google<BR>racket. I assume that I will also see the article tomorrow when my<BR>BusinessWeek arrives.<BR><BR>The article has too
much in it to cull snippets. Here is the source<BR>so that you can read it for yourself:<BR><BR>Drucker, Jesse. 2010."Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to<BR>Tax Loopholes." Bloomberg (21 October).<BR><BR><A href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-shows-how-60-billion-u-s-revenue-lost-to-tax-loopholes.html" target=_blank>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-shows-how-60-billion-u-s-revenue-lost-to-tax-loopholes.html</A><BR><BR><BR>-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University<BR>Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901<BR><A href="http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/" target=_blank>http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com</A><BR>_______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu" ymailto="mailto:pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu">pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu</A> <A href="https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l"
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