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How Can I F—k With Him? —Trump’s War on Amazon and the Washington Post

Not really sure what Amazon collecting state sales tax from third-party suppliers has to do with the president of the United States.
 
Can you imagine if Obama said this and threatened business as such? Conservatives on this board and Fox News would lose their minds if we were in 2014. What a world.
 
Funny because Trump has likely never gone shopping in his life, mom n’ pop brick and mortar or online. What would he buy? No bourbon, no cigars, no fine food, no exotic cars. Suits tailored at home and golf clubs delivered to the club. Nothing else to him but hair spray. Knock-off paintings and tacky drapes?

I’ve heard he likes to go furniture shopping.
 
Can you imagine if Obama said this and threatened business as such? Conservatives on this board and Fox News would lose their minds if we were in 2014. What a world.

I mean Obama was kinda uppity
 
Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are in the same position as the Railroad/Oil Barron’s 100 years past.
 
Let’s see if the Marxists on this board can recognize a Jacobin

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/10/jeff-bezos-amazon-rahm-emanuel-chicago

hmmmm..the foul-mouthed corrupt King of Chicago, Rahm..


These taxpayer-funded subsidies for highly profitable corporations are known as “corporate welfare.” Studies show that state and local governments give away $80 billion to corporations every year, while federal subsidies cost taxpayers at least $100 billion annually. This comes on top of hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks, mortgage deductions, and other handouts. It all adds up to a free market that costs the public a fortune.

Of all the brazen offers on the table, one in particular stands out. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has put together $2.25 billion in subsidies to entice Bezos to open shop in the Windy City. Meanwhile, he’s slashed public services and hiked taxes.

Just this month, Emanuel presented his 2018 budget, which includes additional costs for rideshare services and a 28 percent increase in fees for calling 911. City Council member Carlos Ramirez-Rosa says the new budget “nickel-and-dimes working-class Chicagoans while giving the mayor’s rich and powerful campaign donors a free pass.”
 
Rahm will make up for the tax loss by bonking Middle Class Chicagoans with a TIF increase and other property taxes on the average shmoes
 
Rahm Emanuel..”Mayor 1 percent” hahahaha

Rahmming it in the ass of the people and for the people. The Deomocrat Way :)

“These new taxes come on the heels of the largest increase in property taxes in modern Chicago history. Another hike is slated for 2020.

Since taking office, Emanuel has implemented new taxes on water, sewer, telephone use, and garbage pickup, to name but a few. Altogether, he has raised the cost of living for an average Chicago family by at least $1,700. Meanwhile, he’s privatized more and more public services, from the public schools’ janitorial services to the Skyway, the toll road that connects the city to northern Indiana.

Critics allege that raising billions of dollars on the backs of ordinary Chicagoans in order to give it away to a powerful tech company is just the kind of corporate-friendly scheme that has earned Emanuel the nickname “Mayor 1 Percent.”
 
Corruption : Amazon Style (Gangam)

:)

Inside Project Goldcrest:
Amazon’s motives behind Project Goldcrest were clear from the outset, according to the IRS. In a memorandum filed in the Seattle case, tax inspectors claim that when Amazon weighed up the costs and benefits of implementing the scheme, its finance staff “did not quantify any benefits other than avoided US corporate income taxes”.

The IRS has questioned the legality of methods used by Amazon to devise complex intercompany contracts that transferred intangible assets – vital software, trademarks, marketing assets such as branding for its website – to one of its Luxembourg companies, a so-called “pass-through” entity not taxed in the Grand Duchy.

Amazon has vigorously contested the IRS’s claims in the case, which could have significant financial implications for the company. Overall, the IRS has moved to recover $1.5bn in back taxes from the company, plus interest, dating back to 2005-06, when the company implemented Project Goldcrest.

The dispute centres around “transfer pricing”, which multinationals use to value the goods and services shifted around the group structure. Companies are required to establish a transfer price that is market based, as if it were selling the service to a separate company.

In the memorandum, the IRS contends that Amazon used “unrealistically low values” to transfer its assets from the US to Luxembourg, and its valuation of these assets was the “product of counterfactual and legally baseless assumptions”. The memorandum also attacks Amazon’s subsequent justification of its methods as “arbitrary” and “plainly an exercise in futility”.
 
And it cracks me up that people who were convinced that nothing the IRS said was to be believed a couple of years ago will jump on to an IRS argument when it suits their poliitical purposes.
 
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And it cracks me up that people who were convinced that nothing the IRS said was to be believed a couple of years ago will jump on to an IRS argument when it suits their poliitical purposes.

Oh sure. That’s what’s we’re saying you ridiculous dick head
 
Yeah, fuck Jeff Bezos
 
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