Facebook pays NO income taxes

[Baalzebutt]

and then gets a $429 million refund.

Damn. I cant even begin to tell you how much this pisses me off.

Facebook pays no taxes

[Something completely different]

Where are facebook headquaters seated actualy?


I have this idea that if a company or individual refuses to pay taxes, the pavement should be ripped of the roads arround his/her/their house/compund, police should no longer respond to calls, neighter should fire departments or medics, if a murder occurs law isnt inforced through a court and the army should no longer have the obligation to protect that terretory.

I think if people face the worst possible consequences for their actions they might learn.

[Tiberius]

Tax loopholes...the telltale sign of corporatism.

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I have this idea that if a company or individual refuses to pay taxes, the pavement should be ripped of the roads arround his/her/their house/compund, police should no longer respond to calls, neighter should fire departments or medics, if a murder occurs law isnt inforced through a court and the army should no longer have the obligation to protect that terretory.

I think if people face the worst possible consequences for their actions they might learn.

Whilst I agree with your attitude, I think some of the examples you gave are silly.

Ripping up pavements would cost the taxpayer yet more money.

Police not responding to calls would result in a "free-for-all" area of crime, where innocent people could get punished as a result. I'm thinking about Facebook employees who do pay taxes, etc. Same goes for "law isn't enforced if a murder occurs".

Removing protection from fire endangers other people. If I don't pay taxes, but my house catches fire, it endangers the houses and people around it. Why should other people be put at risk?

Surely rather than just remove these services, it would be easier to enforce tax law? Close the loopholes; prosecute / fine people who don't pay the correct amount. Simple.

[Something completely different]

Whilst I agree with your attitude, I think some of the examples you gave are silly. Ripping up pavements would cost the taxpayer yet more money.

A streets pavement is ruined after one year and constantly has to be repaved, if you took my statement word for word then it`s your own fault since I was clearly being sarcastic.

Police not responding to calls would result in a "free-for-all" area of crime, where innocent people could get punished as a result. I'm thinking about Facebook employees who do pay taxes, etc. Same goes for "law isn't enforced if a murder occurs".

sarcasm not understood again

Removing protection from fire endangers other people. If I don't pay taxes, but my house catches fire, it endangers the houses and people around it. Why should other people be put at risk?

sarcasm not understood again

Surely rather than just remove these services, it would be easier to enforce tax law? Close the loopholes; prosecute / fine people who don't pay the correct amount. Simple.

Why not? Sure it is required to reform taxcodes to make them more resistant to crime.
But why not punish people who would happily take goverment provided services by denying them these services.
After all, they would be aware of those consequences since they underfunded these very services themselves

[John V]

“The employees cash in stock options, and at that point there is tax deduction for the company,” Robert McIntyre of watchdog group Citizens for Tax Justice told Fox News during an interview. “Because even though it doesn’t cost Facebook a nickel, the government treats it as wages and they get a deduction for it. And usually it doesn’t wipe out companies whole tax bill, although many companies get big breaks from it.”

Note the bolded part. It's taxable income to the employees. The highest individual rate in 2012 was the same as the highest corporate rate. Some amount might have been lost because you had more people stepping through the brackets, but basically, tax was paid.

[justin]

Where are facebook headquaters seated actualy?


I have this idea that if a company or individual refuses to pay taxes, the pavement should be ripped of the roads arround his/her/their house/compund, police should no longer respond to calls, neighter should fire departments or medics, if a murder occurs law isnt inforced through a court and the army should no longer have the obligation to protect that terretory.

I think if people face the worst possible consequences for their actions they might learn.

You're one cool ass german.

[Tiberius]

A streets pavement is ruined after one year and constantly has to be repaved, if you took my statement word for word then it`s your own fault since I was clearly being sarcastic.

Excuse me? How on earth was I supposed to know it was sarcasm? You didn't use emoticons, you didn't use the common "</sarcasm>" tag, and your post made no other attempts to let the reader know.

Why not? Sure it is required to reform taxcodes to make them more resistant to crime.
But why not punish people who would happily take goverment provided services by denying them these services.
After all, they would be aware of those consequences since they underfunded these very services themselves

Wait...WTF? You're complaining about me not understanding that you used sarcasm (despite it being completely NOT obvious you were using it), and then you respond to my point by repeating the same thing you've said. Am I to take it this is also sarcastic?!?

[cratehorus]

and then gets a $429 million refund.

Damn. I cant even begin to tell you how much this pisses me off.

Facebook pays no taxes

Facebook shouldn't pay taxes it provides a service we all desperately need

[Minimalist]

and then gets a $429 million refund.

Damn. I cant even begin to tell you how much this pisses me off.

Facebook pays no taxes

Fucking child's play compared to GE.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/general-e...d=13224558

For those unaccustomed to the loopholes and shelters of the corporate tax code, GE's success at avoiding taxes is nothing short of extraordinary. The company, led by Immelt, earned $14.2 billion in profits in 2010, but it paid not a penny in taxes because the bulk of those profits, some $9 billion, were offshore. In fact, GE got a $3.2 billion tax benefit.

But even that isn't enough for the libertarian fat-cat Koch Brothers and their sock puppets, like Herman Cain.

http://www.businessinsider.com/herman-ca...es-2011-10

Cain's various comments scorning the non rich and his links to wealthy plutocratic anti-populists like David and Charles Koch, billionaires who "bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity" Id. (The Koch-funded group would be more aptly named America Run for the Super-Rich, since it lobbies for the right's agenda of New Deal elimination and targeting of earned benefits of ordinary Americans through a campaign for zero taxation on capital, deregulation, militarization, and privatization .)

[Aractus]

and then gets a $429 million refund.

Damn. I cant even begin to tell you how much this pisses me off.

Facebook pays no taxes

Good for them, only idiots use facebook.