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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

I've worked for big companies before that opened up shell companies in tax havens like Dublin. They literally just moved the payments to there. When they floated it to us, they said hey, we're just not going to owe taxes anymore. We'll save billions.

We all looked as each other and said Jesus that sounds illegal. And yet there it was and it passed muster and they went public and IPO and everything

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