Google pays 2.4% US taxes....

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WTF? I've known about this practice (in principle) for many years, but I never realised that it was this bad. It looks like everyone is getting screwed bar the corporations themselves.

These sorts of shenanigans are legal, but not very moral IMHO. As for tacking the problem: It probably depends on how badly governments want to curb the practices.

And it's good to see my old mate Abraham Briloff getting a mention - a throwback to my student days when some of his books were required reading for would-be accountants.

It truly is a thing of beauty, I love this country at times.

Well, we don't seem to be doing too well out of it, and increased focus on this problem is only going to further reduce our ability to maintain a low corporation tax rate.

The only way to fix this government is a coup, the outcome of which being me installed as dictator for life. Anything short of that is just a temporary fix.

I'm prepared to offer you a ministerial post, and dominion over 1 county, in exchange for your support.

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Hold on, what do you expect me to offer in the way of "support"?

The only way to fix this government is a coup, the outcome of which being me installed as dictator for life. Anything short of that is just a temporary fix.

Your seditious talk has been detected by Obama's Kenyan Death Panels. By now, Nazis in black helicopters will have dragged you off to FEMA concentration camps to be re-programmed by liberal media.

You forget that DP hails from Limerick.