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Title: Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
Post by: xrtoronto on February 02, 2006, 09:20:31 PM
Tue Jan 31, 4:34 PM ET

LISBON (AFP)

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.

"My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers," he said at a Microsoft conference held in Lisbon.

"So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer," he added in comments broadcast on television.

"Then they will send me another notice telling me how bad they feel they that they sent me a notice that was a mistake," he said

Gates's fortune is put at 47 billion dollars (38.9 billion euros), according to the latest list of the world's rich published by Forbes magazine.

Last month Time magazine named Gates and his wife Melinda, along with rock star Bono, its "Persons of the Year" for 2005, citing their charitable work and activism aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health.

The couple's Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has a 29 billion dollar endowment making it the world's biggest charity.

source (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060131/od_afp/uspeoplegatestax_060131213459)
Title: Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
Post by: B@tfinkV on February 02, 2006, 09:36:00 PM
i still think south park the movie had it right on.

shoot him in the head.
Title: Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
Post by: REP0MAN on February 02, 2006, 09:43:25 PM
can I borrow 20 bucks Bill?


wow! 100 posts! i feel so special.
Title: Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
Post by: Munkii on February 02, 2006, 09:45:35 PM
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Originally posted by B@tfinkV
shoot him in the head.


Why?
Title: Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
Post by: B@tfinkV on February 02, 2006, 10:36:03 PM
why not?
Title: Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
Post by: Gunslinger on February 02, 2006, 10:59:08 PM
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Originally posted by B@tfinkV
why not?


If I was worth $40 Billion I'd probably have a few spetznaz/storm trooper private security guards around me at all times.
Title: Re: Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
Post by: DREDIOCK on February 02, 2006, 11:35:19 PM
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Originally posted by xrtoronto

"Then they will send me another notice telling me how bad they feel they that they sent me a notice that was a mistake," he said


source (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060131/od_afp/uspeoplegatestax_060131213459)


And if they sent you or I a notice by mistake what kind of apology do you think we would get?
Title: Re: Re: Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
Post by: OOZ662 on February 02, 2006, 11:40:41 PM
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
And if they sent you or I a notice by mistake what kind of apology do you think we would get?


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Title: Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
Post by: Debonair on February 02, 2006, 11:46:08 PM
If it were me, they would carry me around in a sold gold sedan car & i would use picassos for toilet paper
Title: Re: Re: Re: Microsoft founder too rich for tax computer to handle
Post by: RightF00T on February 02, 2006, 11:59:57 PM
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Originally posted by OOZ662
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