FB is playing the game that corporations play all over the world - global tax arbitrage. They shift operations, losses and profits to different countries based on tax policy.<p>The similar thing happens here in the US at the State level. It isn&#x27;t uncommon for large companies to pack up and move their operations to lower tax States, or to actually bargain with individual States over who will give them the best deal. Here in Massachusetts, Fidelity packed up and left for North Carolina and Texas - they found it was cheaper to move employees than pay the taxes.<p>This will likely continue as long as different countries (and States) have different tax schemes - and that isn&#x27;t going away anytime soon.<p>Soon we&#x27;ll probably have a renewed call for a lower tax rate here in the US for companies to repatriate those revenues.