Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Qbasic - lies about Medicare Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:18:33 -0800 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 21 Message-ID: <87vb4xkko6.fsf@garlic.com> References: <9f605622-7847-4ff5-bdf3-0c3cc0234325@googlegroups.com> <87mvqb5vys.fsf@garlic.com> <9f605622-7847-4ff5-bdf3-0c3cc0234325@googlegroups.com> <8rCdndezrZyJK0TLnZ2dnUU78SXNnZ2d@giganews.com> <5grpqc-tf4.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> <325025497.478837501.533736.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <87twkkb4ui.fsf@garlic.com> <87mvqb5vys.fsf@garlic.com> <7cac89f0-e253-4212-be82-dfcf259bc197@googlegroups.com> <87d1r6gixg.fsf@garlic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9a6c8ce24fcd2caeb84dd64e0fa6007c"; logging-data="24286"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+TaZHOd0fdcTqx7iY/UYj099WbeMwoeO0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ykzxhURNaIAQqkioIEt0GfNkBDo= sha1:VUETaRf6ekFITXs+H157KiOVDKE= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:160708 Anne & Lynn Wheeler writes: > The latest gimmick is that the subsidiary (where the profits are being > booked) is moved offshore ... so the profit shows up in an extremely > attractive tax haven. > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion Democrats and Republicans Are Quietly Planning a Corporate Giveaway -- to the Tune of $400 Billion http://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-and-republicans-are-quietly-planning-a-corporate-giveaway-to-the-tune-of-400-billion/ one of the poster child is heavy equipment maker that makes, sells, and delivers in the US; it changes to selling at cost to a new distributor subsidiary in Luxembourg, which sells to the buyers in the US (the equipment never leaves the US, delivered directly from US plant to US buyer. The difference is nearly all the profit is booked with the distributor Luxemberg (where trivial tax has been negotiated) http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970