[runarb]

> Fines like this are a nice little tax write off, just another business expense.

The fines seem to be leveled at Meta's local company in Norway. As I understand it, fines are not deductible in Norway.

(I am not an accountant, and my company has never gotten a find, but looking up this in the accounting system I use, it seems it is not deductible: https://kontohjelp.fiken.no/as/medMoms/7799?sok=7799 ( in Norwegian)).

[dghughes]

> fines are not deductible in Norway.

If a company tried I think it should be viewed as contempt of court. A company trying to get money back for which it was fined would basically be them thumbing their nose at the fine. Maybe that is why fines are not deductible.

[xwdv]

See that’s the thing about being a global company: You can pay off the fines in one country as part of an expense for a branch in another, where it can then be deducted from taxes in that foreign country. So yea, fuck you courts.

[xwdv]

There’s gotta be some financial engineering that ultimately results in deduction somehow.