By SN
Saturday June 6, 2009
Slashdot – June 6, 2009:
“Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is threatening to move Microsoft employees offshore if Congress enacts President Obama’s plans to curb tax avoidance by US corporations. ‘It makes US jobs more expensive,’ complained billionaire Ballmer. ‘We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the US as opposed to keeping them inside the US.’ According to 2006 reports, Microsoft transferred $16 billion in assets to secretive Dublin subsidiaries to shave billions off its US tax bill. ‘Corporate tax is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland,’ acknowledged Ballmer in 2005. ‘It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.’”
They should go offshore, then we’ll see how much worse their products will be
#100, Liberty Loser,
I did that in 2002, 2003, and twice in 2005 for some of our products. Not one form took more than a half hour to complete. That half hour though returned a lot of business and was much, much, less work than completing an ISO9000 audit.
I’m all for it!! If you ppl don’t see the writing on the wall, you’re a bunch of idiots. You tell me, how many totally US based companies are there are by state that support over 5000 jobs? Not friggin many anymnore and the last one in my state just got taken over by the government. One generation secured our freedom….my generation enjoyed it….yeah, we screwed up the next generation who wants someone to make the decisons for them because they are too lazy to.