How US tech corporations avoid taxes

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Ganoncrotch said:

Leadified said:

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.

Yeah unfortunately it seems like another one of those good ideas that got corrupted as soon as people figured out how to exploit the system. Eventually the pendulum will swing the other way and people will want to cut everything until we're back to square one. It's a shame but that's reality.