Re:John Carmack: My Steve Jobs Stories
by GeekyBear on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @02:07AM
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In comparison to Microsoft's behavior?
>seven years ago, Microsoft opened a small office in Reno, Nev., to collect the money it got from PC manufacturers that installed Windows and Office on the computers they sold. In the years since, Microsoft has sheltered more than $60 billion in royalty revenue in Nevada, a state with no corporate income tax, costing Washington an estimated $327 million in unrealized tax revenue.
>seven years ago, Microsoft opened a small office in Reno, Nev., to collect the money it got from PC manufacturers that installed Windows and Office on the computers they sold. In the years since, Microsoft has sheltered more than $60 billion in royalty revenue in Nevada, a state with no corporate income tax, costing Washington an estimated $327 million in unrealized tax revenue.
http://archive.seattleweekly.com/2004-09-29/news/citizen-mic...
>Registration funds important things like police, fire, and public education
Jobs paid his taxes and registration, he just didn't put his plates on the car.
Microsoft has intentionally dodged paying hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the state where they are located.