Tag Archives: Microsoft

Meta v. IRS: A Multi-Billion Dollar Reckoning

Mark Estrada – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is deploying new valuation strategies to target Meta for profit shifting and underpayment of taxes. The IRS is seeking nearly sixteen billion dollars in tax deficiencies, all related to Facebook’s—now Meta’s—2010 use of an international tax framework called the double Irish—a now-abolished ownership arrangement that routed profits […]

Microsoft’s Road to the Top in the Gaming World – The Largest Gaming Industry Deal Ever Creates Legal Controversy

Stephen Vinson – Microsoft took another gigantic step in its journey to become one of the largest gaming companies in the world earlier this year after it announced its intention to acquire Activision, the makers of the “Call of Duty,” currently the third highest-selling gaming franchise in history. The purchase price–a whopping $68.7 billion–is the […]