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To: bruwin who wrote (60654)	4/5/2018 6:46:38 AM
From: Spekulatius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78753

Re FB - yes 10% is very low, but virtually no multinational US company payed the nominal income tax rate. Most companies paid probably around 20-25%. Now after the Tax cuts, this is less of an issue, since the corporate income tax is lowered to 25.7%, it’s becoming less of an issue. Most companies can also use accelerated depreciation and tech companies can write of stock purchase plan and stock options expenses to lower their tax rate. I don’t think that if FB tax rate increases from 10.6% to 20%, it would materially change the thesis.