Bill Gates preaches the aid gospel, but is he just a hypocrite? | Ian Birrell
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/06/bill-gates-preaches-fighting-poverty-hypocrite-microsoft-tax?CMP=twt_gu
In Britain, Microsoft reported revenues of £1.7bn in a single year for online sales on which it paid no corporation tax. This is why if you look at the small print when buying software through its British website, you find you are dealing with a Luxembourg offshoot. A newspaper investigation found a small office there with just six staff handling online sales from around Europe.
None of this is illegal, however absurd it appears. But it is highly unethical, especially when the chairman [Gates Bill] is exhorting countries to hand over taxpayers’ cash to his [Bill Gates’] pet causes – and it certainly tarnishes that saintly image.