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Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS::The IRS sent a surprise bill to Microsoft, hitting the company with a $28.9 billion bill for back taxes and penalties spanning a decade, starting in 2003.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow I wish I could not pay taxes for 3 decades and like do something nice with all that money…

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, in fairness, they didn't do anything nice with the money either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Becoming a monopoly and tech giant is pretty nice..

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Okay they aren't good, but seriously what makes them a monopoly? I haven't seen anyone make a good argument for this. There isn't a single industry they're in, that I know or can think of, that they hold enough market capture to be a monopoly.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Microsoft has lots of kickass stuff. Just Bing it, bro. Or jump on Teams with me and I'll explain it while I rock out with my Zune.

/s obv