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Bill Gates Gets Special Treatment by IRS

We all know that the very very very rich are different than we are: they have more money. Lots more. So much more, in fact, that their taxes are apparently handled on special, exclusive, computers.

According to the international mainstream news media (as reported in Australia's NEWS.com.au via a report by Agence France-Press), Bill Gates just has Too much money to tax.

Reportedly, Gates stated at a conference in Lisbon: "My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers.."

Much hilarity ensues on Slashdot's report of the report, Bill Gates' Taxes Require Special Computer, where the discussion starts off with some speculation over whether the IRS had to switch from a Windows platform to a Macintosh to handle the big numbers.

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