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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Accountants patent tax-dodges

US accountants are filing for patents on tax-dodges:

Why would Congress pass a law allowing such a thing? The answer is that it did not. But a U.S. appeals court ruled in 1998 that business methods could be patented, and since then the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued 50 tax- strategy patents, with many more pending.

What's next, patents on taxi-drivers' favorite routes through downtown? Link (Thanks, Mateusz!)

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