QuixoticOne
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Originally posted by: Ryland
Originally posted by: QuixoticOne
Originally posted by: Navid
How do you know that the Business license we have got is not OEM already?
I asked and Mark Brown from Microsoft Marketing who's the one in charge of this
promotion said that it was a full retail license version.
Given the way the discs are labeled, I guess that'd be "RETAIL NFR (not for resale)",
specifically.
Too bad we don't have any tax lawyers around. MS is sending us NFR and claiming that they are Full Retail just doesn't add up. You can't have both.
Yeah I agree.
Vista is NFR.
Office is MEDIA-LESS and possibly NFR also.
Typically you can order media-less and NFR versions at a substantial discount off full retail MSRP, so, yeah, the taxable value
of these OUGHT to be according to those discounted valuation schedules and not same-as-full-MSRP since we should be
getting packages, discs, and resale rights if they were truly full retail versions.
Well hey Microsoft had to figure out some way to keep the government happy so it doesn't keep suing it for anti-trust violations,
and a free $200,000 tax revenue windfall is a great way to make 'em happy! That's really said with humor / sarcasm.
Actually more seriously, though, I'm pretty sure MS is able to deduct the full MSRP value of the gifts as product marketing expenses
off their OWN tax dues and profits, so given that it probably costs them $15 per set and they get a $798 tax deduction per set,
they've got a pretty cheap way to save $20,000,000 or whatever on their own taxes. Nobody ever accused MS of being
bad at making money... though given the "years in the making" VISTA development tragedy/saga, I suppose they need to start making
some of the billions they spent on its development back!