Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on License Fee 282
MissingRainbow writes "To avoid paying taxes in India, Microsoft wanted a court to believe that it is selling its product and that there are no royalty payments involved. Their own EULA worked against them in this particular case however as it states, "the product is licensed, not sold". The court ruled against them."
Re:Obligatory (Score:3, Interesting)
WalMart is about as mainstream as you can get.
Re:dear god! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:dear god! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Got Karma? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:After Dark (Score:2, Interesting)
The amount they have to pay works out to about 28 hours of revenue.
No Tax on Income or Sales? (Score:3, Interesting)
Tax makes EULA valid? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:HP and WalMart (Score:3, Interesting)
Amusingly, this means that users of these small laptops will end up with a system microsoft claim is inferior, and which they're trying hard to make sure new apps don't support... Conversely, apps will continue to support XP in order to run on these popular small laptops, leaving microsoft with even more fragmentation.
It's already annoying enough when "windows mobile" os so crippled and incompatible with other versions of "windows", sharing little more than the name. By contrast, i can recompile apps from my desktop linux system to run on my linux based nokia n800 tablet.
Re:Tax makes EULA valid? (Score:3, Interesting)
I once saw a PDF published by the IRS explaining how to report money from alternative income sources. There was a section on "bribes and kickbacks", a section on illegal drug sales, a section on "other illegal activities".
They just want your money; they don't care how you made it.