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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by Houshalter on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @11:58PM (#8294843)
Notch is Swedish isn't he?
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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by rmc on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @05:47AM (#8295751)
IKEA is Swedish as you get, and it's technically a dutch charity.
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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by hellweaver666 on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @07:13AM (#8295995)
Technically it's controlled by a Dutch not-for-profit organisation (not a charity)
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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by bjourne on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @04:53AM (#8295582)
Ingvar Kamprad is too, doesn't prevent him from not paying any taxes. It's not very hard to find exploits in the tax system. Even in the worst case, the corporate tax is 22%.
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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by Joona on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @12:30AM (#8294935)
His tax rate is probably around 40-50%.
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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by carlio on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @02:16AM (#8295156)
He's the 4th largest tax payer in Sweden apparently: https://twitter.com/notch/status/410757753737469952
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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by T-A on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @01:47AM (#8295111)
This being essentially all capital gains, it would be taxed at 30%.
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