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If the money is due, then it must be paid. Presumably Google is getting some value too?

So all Microsoft bashing happened here for this tax collection news is irrelevant. And those who bashed Microsoft there are some narrow minded people who doesn't get the Big Picture?

your favorite ad company is also doing the same thing.

Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes

Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

They dodge taxes here in the UK too. While benefiting from our infrastructure and educated workforce.

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