Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue

Re:Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B ... by dheera on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:30PM (#27137787)

I suppose a lot of the fixed costs are lawyers charging $1000/hour to fill in some blanks on some Word templates?

Maybe an entrepreneur just needs to make that a web form. Fill in details and generate the same form for $10 instead of $1000.

And then some robots to print, seal up, and mail the envelopes and we're done.

I should be able to spin up a Dutch shell company like an EC2 instance. Maybe have "AWS" regions for Cayman and other places too and a Python API to spin up shell companies in arbitrary locales.

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Re:Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B ... by the_local_host on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:44PM (#27137867)

Each pod in a Kubernetes cluster should register itself as a separate LLC and declare bankruptcy on shutdown. Free cloud deployments!

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