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Get Tax Strategies Like Microsoft

Podcast: Hidden Money Podcast · Mike Pine and Kevin Schneider

Opublikowano: 2026-10-06

On this week's episode: most people assume Microsoft's 2.44% tax rate means the game is rigged for billionaires, and never ask what the tax code has already built in for anyone willing to invest the same way. What the tax code already rewards: 1. Corporations pay a flat 21% tax rate — that's the rule. Microsoft backed into 2.44%, which means roughly $85 billion of its $101 billion in profit was offset by deductions and credits written directly into the tax code, available to any business that invests the way Microsoft does. 2. Buy $100,000 of office equipment and you write it off a li...