Throughout the last month, several signs have appeared in Ballard (here, here and here.) The signs are all the same – black paper with plain white text.
On Friday, this sign appeared in Bergen Place. It says, “MICROSOFT PAYS NO WASHINGTON STATE SOFTWARE LICENSING TAX.” According to GeekWire, the sign isn’t exactly true. To be strictly accurate, the sign would need to say Microsoft “dodged $6.1 billion in Washington State taxes before it lobbied the legislature to rewrite the law to eliminate the tax,'” writes Jeff Reifman on the Microsoft Tax Dodge after GeekWire sent him the photo.
Read this GeekWire article to get the background on the issue. (Photo courtesy GeekWire.)
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