How US tech corporations avoid taxes

[Ganoncrotch]

Leadified said:

Ganoncrotch said:

For anyone who doesn't know btw, ECDL is the European Computer Driving Licence, it is basically a course to show you how to turn on a PC, open internet explorer and send an email. Course of that going on here for 6 months, that is from people who know I'm a certified IT support staff member, MS certified and CompTIA, literally being shown how to plug in a PC just so I'm not "unemployed"

I've heard of things like that happening in Japan with people having some pretty meaningless jobs just so they aren't unemployed, or you have more people than required just to work on a simple task just to have them doing something. It's a bit suprising to hear this starting to crop up in European countries.

What the Gov here does too now is they've started schemes to return people to work, basically if a company has 20 employees they can request a gov paid intern for up to 3 years work placement, basically the worker gets experience and a 9-5 job but the wage is paid by the Gov not the company so they just offer experience and they get the worker for it...

Of course what has started to happen more and more now is if there is an actual position in a company going, rather than offering a salery and creating a job they will instead go for this option which still is just a drain on the Tax system just to make it appear that someone isn't "unemployed" it wasn't bad when it wasn't creating jobs... but now it is actually costing real jobs, it's taking the piss completely.