Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

Re:Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £22... by maccard on Thursday June 03, 2021 @07:52AM (#27379887)

If you're paying dividends, you're not paying 40% income tax on that.

Microsoft employees are also paying 20-40% income tax remember.

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Re:Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £22... by Grustaf on Thursday June 03, 2021 @08:48AM (#27380446)

Sure, so Microsoft still (not so) indirectly contributes to the tax coffers. But it's still pretty bad that the rich MS shareholders can benefit from schemes like these, while employees can't.

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Re:Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £22... by maccard on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:10AM (#27380723)

I'm not defending MS at all, but it's not correct to say "I'm contributing 40% plus corporation tax while Microsoft contributes nothing".

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Re:Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £22... by Grustaf on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:20AM (#27380861)

I'm not saying that, I'm saying the opposite. But perhaps you're referring to what someone else said.

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