Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Results

Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Re... by neximo64 on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:24AM (#13499110)

Googles mean or even max is far from 35% over their entire history. I fail to see the relevance of your argument.

Perhaps you think Google will eventually in the future pay 35% and everything in the past was just an anomaly?

Because it's a laughable thought, or if you're absolutely convinced that is the case you're incredibly naive.

You're mixing up mean reversion with extrapolation.

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Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Re... by btian on Friday January 27, 2017 @11:34AM (#13500733)

Where did you get the 35% number from?

You know Google is a global company, right? Corporate income tax rate in Ireland is 12.5%.

Have you seen any global company paying 35% income tax?

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Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Re... by neximo64 on Friday January 27, 2017 @08:15PM (#13504188)

Does that mean that its profits would be volume weighted based on where they're earned? Because they still do not match up, 12.5% would be the lower boundary - of which Google was below on many years. What you've come up with is a rationalisation.

There is no way you can spin it, there is clear avoidance & the excuse is a battle on details of the law.

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