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pacifika
on Feb 1, 2011
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How IKEA is structured to minimize tax and maximiz...
You think Target and Walmart do not avoid high taxes through clever tricks?
alastair
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"Wal-Mart paid 34 cents in taxes for every dollar of profit it made in the past three years."
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Tichy
on Feb 1, 2011
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Still, profit is only what is left after the accountants did their job.
loewenskind
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Funny that the articles uncited tax number only went back 3 years. What would happen if they went back more?
http://www.ctj.org/pdf/walmart041607.pdf
jimmybot
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Magnitude, not true-false.
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