That&#x27;s cute. Why don&#x27;t you set a good example for Google by sending the government double what you owe in income taxes this year? Just call it a gift, because you couldn&#x27;t correctly call it a &quot;civic duty.&quot;<p>In fact, you&#x27;re in a better position than Google to do so. Any publicly-traded company like Google would be immediately sued for dereliction of duty to shareholders to minimizing taxes if they decided to start giving away extra money (shareholders&#x27; money) to the government.<p>By the way, in 2010 Google paid $2.3 billion federal tax on income of $10.8 billion.