[HN Gopher] Tesla Didn't Pay Any Federal Income Taxes for 5 Year...
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       Tesla Didn't Pay Any Federal Income Taxes for 5 Years, Got $1M Tax
       Refund
        
       Author : rntn
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2024-03-14 19:08 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (gizmodo.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (gizmodo.com)
        
       | MountainMan1312 wrote:
       | Lots of redundant work being done with all these Musk articles.
       | Would be easier just to write one big definitive article titled
       | "all the reasons Elon Musk is a parasite" and be done with it.
        
         | unsupp0rted wrote:
         | Being "done with it" is not the objective of the _Two Minutes
         | Hate_.
        
         | jollofricepeas wrote:
         | How about wealth inequality is real?
         | 
         | And billionaires such as Elon, Bezos and other shouldn't exist.
         | 
         | If you're not a major shareholder, you're a sucker for paying
         | income tax.
        
         | nonameiguess wrote:
         | He's not dead and any article you write can't possibly notify
         | readers of anything in the future he hasn't done yet. Such is
         | the reason it's called "news."
        
       | ergocoder wrote:
       | Is there something nefarious going on?
       | 
       | It seems to be the standard carry-forward loss accounting
       | practice.
       | 
       | Are all tax accountants evil here since they all do this common
       | accounting practice?
       | 
       | Also, the article's tone is not at all biased...
        
         | iscoelho wrote:
         | Ditto. This is a board for hackers, engineers, programmers,
         | founders, and related - yet there's threads like this that fail
         | to understand one of the simplest concepts of business
         | taxation?
         | 
         | I am lost. I don't understand Hacker News anymore.
        
       | datavirtue wrote:
       | The proverbial "welfare mom?"
        
       | FormerBandmate wrote:
       | Yeah, that's how corporate tax work
        
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