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Coca-Cola Taxes (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 176 points 2 months ago (3 children)

and i bet nobody goes to jail in the end, and ultimately they end up profiting after paying it back

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 months ago

You assume they’re paying it back and don’t do some pittance of a public service instead.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This article is basically their public flogging, they've paid their dues and can reenter society

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

For this to be criminal it'd probably require intent to be proven which is difficult without a "smoking gun" of an email being like "do this to avoid taxes or be fired"- CEO. For it just to be civil fines is a lot simpler to show. Their inevitable appeal and potential reduction in fine is a different issue.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which is hilarious because ignorance is not a defence for poor people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

the poor are not, according to the american criminal system; 'people'. mutually exclusive categories.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Of course they have intent. That's not an issue at all. They're trying to avoid taxes, which is in itself legal, and they aren't denying that. Their theory is that the IRS is doing the math wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It almost sounds like you're saying corporations are not people. Don't let the conservatives hear you say that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

16 billion dollars of money laundering isn’t an “honest mistake”…. criminal intent abounds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Sure but that's a lot harder to prove.