&gt; And as they pay property and sales taxes<p>They often fight their local assessment, and argue it down as much as possible.<p>=============<p>At its retail stores, windowless concrete boxes that carry a low value for property-tax purposes, the company saved an average of $40,000 a store where it filed a challenge, the report found. The distribution center savings averaged $289,000 for each challenge, it said.<p>The report suggested that Wal-Mart saves about $3 million annually from challenging property tax bills, a small sum compared with the company’s revenue, nearly $1 billion a day.
=============<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2007&#x2F;10&#x2F;10&#x2F;business&#x2F;10prop.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2007&#x2F;10&#x2F;10&#x2F;business&#x2F;10prop.html?_r=0</a><p>Yes, this is 10 years old now, but not sure there&#x27;s been much of a corporate culture change to stop doing this.<p>$40k would definitely go a long way towards funding a police officer in many areas.