Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Goldman comes clean on taxes

In today's earnings report:

The effective income tax rate was approximately 1% for 2008, down from 25.1% for the first nine months of 2008 and down from 34.1% for fiscal year 2007. The decreases in the effective income tax rate were primarily due to an increase in permanent benefits as a percentage of lower earnings and changes in geographic earnings mix.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Goldman-Sachs-Reports-bw-13841883.html

What I said yesterday:

At least there will some good news tomorrow. We won't have to worry about the discrepancy between actual tax payments to the IRS, and those that Goldman reports to investors.
http://aaronandmoses.blogspot.com/2008/12/goldman-reports-earnings-tomorrow.html

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