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		borism on Oct 21, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions Why it's so hard to digest this? GS is so successful and so hated for certain reasons, and that's one of them.

solutionyogi on Oct 21, 2010 [–]

I do expect a Public Corporation to minimize their tax liability. I would have not been surprised if they minimized their effective tax from 35% to 25%, or even 15%. But going from 35% to 1% is rather surprising. I guess their Corporate Tax team got some real nice bonus for 2008.

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