First of all we're talking about 2009 where net earning were 19.2b not 31.4
Second, 80% of their earnings came from overseas where they paid most
of the their income taxes.

After tax profit was 6.2%

So:
19.2 b * .2 = 3,856,000,000

500,000,000 / 3,856,000,000 = .129688 = 12.9%

.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Casey Dougall
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> They actually paid 40%
>>
>> Nice bevnap math though.
>>
>>
> 500,000,000 / 31,400,000,000 * 100 = 1.592356687898089
>
>

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