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Re:The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions by metabrew on Thursday October 21, 2010 @11:51AM (#1815975)
Don't blame the player, blame the game.

Tax loopholes should be closed in law, Google and other corporations have a responsibility to their shareholders - why shouldn't they act within the law to save money?

I remember seeing a fun flow-chart of the IKEA tax avoidance scheme. Didn't have as amusing names as those used in this article though :)

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Re:The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions by bl4k on Thursday October 21, 2010 @07:03PM (#1817806)
tech guys have server naming schemes, lawyers have offshore tax-minimization entity naming schemes.

(personally if I ever got that big, I would name them all after characters from The Wire - just so I could say thing like 'lets shift all that to prop joe corp'. Hearing it all told back to you in court would be even more amusing.)

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