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Originally Posted by Kindleing
It's also worth remembering that tax laws are written and enacted by politicians, not corporations. Companies who don't comply with tax laws, and are caught, suffer consequences.
All businesses pass taxes on to the consumer. When their taxes go up consumer prices go up.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Well, they are enacted by politicians. But increasingly they are written by lobbyists.
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The IRS Decided to Get Tough Against Microsoft. Microsoft Got Tougher. Note that ProPublica leans to the left in their reporting.
tl;dr, perhaps a bit over-simplified: the IRS audited Microsoft. Microsoft (rather, the lobbyists for Microsoft) got the law changed regarding audiitng.