The IRS sent a surprise bill to Microsoft, hitting the company with a $28.9 billion bill for back taxes and penalties spanning a decade, starting in 2003.

Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS::The IRS sent a surprise bill to Microsoft, hitting the company with a $28.9 billion bill for back taxes and penalties spanning a decade, starting in 2003.

  • southsamuraiEnglish
    56•9 months ago

    Well, in fairness, they didn’t do anything nice with the money either.

      • @RedAggroBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        -1•9 months ago

        Okay they aren’t good, but seriously what makes them a monopoly? I haven’t seen anyone make a good argument for this. There isn’t a single industry they’re in, that I know or can think of, that they hold enough market capture to be a monopoly.

    • @Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
      -1•9 months ago

      Microsoft has lots of kickass stuff. Just Bing it, bro. Or jump on Teams with me and I’ll explain it while I rock out with my Zune.

      /s obv