{"id":18566,"date":"2012-12-10T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T07:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=18566"},"modified":"2012-12-10T07:36:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T07:36:48","slug":"microsofts-tax-avoidance-represents-3-5-of-the-world-aid-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/10\/microsofts-tax-avoidance-represents-3-5-of-the-world-aid-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s tax avoidance represents 3.5% of the world aid budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft's tax\u00a0avoidance\u00a0by use of now familiar sales operations in places like Ireland, Puerto Rico and Singapore <a title=\"Microsoft\u2019s tax avoidance \u2014 $4.6 billion, worldwide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/10\/microsofts-tax-avoidance-4-6-billion-worldwide\/\">saves them $4.68 billion in tax a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.oneworld.net\/guides\/aid\" target=\"_blank\">best estimate of the world aid budget that I can find <\/a>is $133.5 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>So Microsoft avoids a sum in tax equivalent to 3.5% of the world aid budget each year.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Bill Gates might like to discuss the social justice in that. Many of the savings will, of course, be in countries where aid is\u00a0delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s tax\u00a0avoidance\u00a0by use of now familiar sales operations in places like Ireland, Puerto Rico and Singapore saves them $4.68 billion in tax a year. The<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/12\/10\/microsofts-tax-avoidance-represents-3-5-of-the-world-aid-budget\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-ethics","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}