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by arczyx 1848 days ago
I think that 220bn is the profit of that particular Irish subsidiary. They got their revenue from all other Microsoft's subsidiaries around the world and only need very little expense ("directors", etc). Hence, profit.
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Still that makes no sense as others have pointed out ... MSFT as a whole made $143 billion in revenue and $40 billion in profit for 2020, so not sure where the €220 billion number is coming from.