Ikea is the most notorius tax avoider in the world.
The great swedish furniture company is actually a dutch charity.
Bill & Melinda Foundation?
They do actually give away money - although with some strings attached (like your government not using open source!)
IKEA itself - not the owner - is a charity, registered in Holland to be in the Eu but actually in the Dutch antilles so they don't pay Dutch tax and they can keep secret any donations
Re:Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich
by SoftwareMaven on Sunday January 30, 2011 @02:46AM
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Do you have a reference to back up the OSS prohibition? It sounds like an urban legend and I couldn't find anything searching, but I've seen weirder things before.
Re:Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich
by othermaciej on Saturday January 29, 2011 @06:32PM
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It sounds like you are against equity compensation and in favor of the Swedish laws that make it prohibitively expensive. Why is that? US technology startups are heavily based on equity compensation, so probably many folks here would assume it is a good thing.
no, actually I don't have an opinion whether swedish system is good or bad, as I haven't experienced it personally, only heard and read about it and know few people who had problems with it. in the end they seem to be doing fine.
but I think there needs to be more optimal solution than just equity compensation or just cash-salary compensation.
Of course very rich guys have their workarounds anyway, for example I recall reading that Ingvar Kamprad pays himself avg IKEA worker salary. Still better than those ridiculous $1 salaries of SV execs.