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abepputoday at 4:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

I think it's from this: https://itep.org/meta-tax-breaks-trump-mark-zuckerberg/


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shubhamjaintoday at 4:07 PM

The post seems to be comparing quarterly figures for tax with annual profit. The doc they cite clearly $25B as provision for income tax.

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datsci_est_2015today at 4:07 PM

Interesting. Wouldn’t surprise me if there are different ways to report the same numbers to make the situation seem more or less favorable. Statisticians and accountants are both professional liars (speaking as a statistician married to an accountant).

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