| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The Irish government taxes corporate profits at 12.5 percent, but Google mostly escapes that tax because its earnings do not stay in the Dublin office, which reported a pretax profit of less than 1 percent of revenues in 2008.Irish law makes it difficult for Google to send the money directly to Bermuda without incurring a large tax hit, so the payment makes a brief detour through the Netherlands, s
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