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