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It centres on how Microsoft allocated profits across countries between 2004 and 2013.

Microsoft is grappling with a colossal tax bill, amounting to $28.9 billion, stemming from historical accounting practices scrutinized by the IRS. A contentious audit of almost two decades of Microsoft's tax payments focused on its accounting trick of offshoring profits to Puerto Rico.

Microsoft says it will challenge the demand from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to pay an extra $28.9 billion, along with associated penalties and interest, in unpaid taxes.

In the largest audit in U.S. history, the IRS rejected Microsoft’s attempts to channel profits to a small factory in Puerto Rico that burned Windows software onto CDs.

Microsoft disputed the claims made by the IRS that the company owes them an additional $28.9 billion in unpaid back taxes

Microsoft is grappling with a colossal tax bill, amounting to $28.9 billion, stemming from historical accounting practices scrutinized by the IRS. A contentious audit of almost two decades of Microsoft's tax payments focused on its accounting trick of offshoring profits to Puerto Rico.

Microsoft owes an additional $28.9 billion in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest for the years between 2004 and 2013, an Internal Revenue Service audit revealed late Tuesday.

Microsoft vows to fight after IRS slaps it with $29B tax bill - SiliconANGLE

Illustration: The Verge The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has informed Microsoft that the company owes back taxes of $28.9 billion "plus penalties and interest" for the tax years 2004 through 2013, according to an SEC filing. Microsoft's corporate VP for worldwide tax and customs Daniel Goff responded to the audit in a blog post, and says the company has changed its corporate structure and practices since the years covered by the audit. "The issues raised by the IRS are rele...

Microsoft revealed on Wednesday that the IRS is attempting to collect $28.9 billion in back taxes but says it will appeal, a process expected to take years.