[tantalor]

Yeah, it's called "taxes".

When companies merge, they pay taxes on the value of the capital, stock or assets acquired during the process of a merger

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/taxable-merger-22406.html

[valuearb]

Foreign companies don’t owe the U.S. taxes when U.S. companies buy them.

[bobwernstein]

microsoft isn't foreign

[valuearb]

Microsoft isn’t getting bought.

[bobwernstein]

exactly so Microsoft pays