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> It would be more admirable if Atlassian weren't a $5B company with a history of paying zero tax.

I couldn't agree more. I've always paid my taxes, not that I had a choice.

$75B according to market cap

Taxing revenue is silly. Atlassian has made no annual profit, losing money every year by investing gross profit into the Australian economy. This is Australias chance to have power in the global tech environment and you’d be foolish to gimp them by penalizing their investments into hiring employees. Do you want a dollar now or ten dollars in a decade when you’re taxing their big tech profits?

Or you could just tax people buying a used car for 9k, fixing it up, selling for 10k, at 10% of revenue…