Eduardo Saverin was born in Brazil and currently lives in Singapore. It's a big bad world, but I think he can probably afford to take care of himself.

PS, and the only reason why this typical sort of behaviour is any news at all, is because it is such a blatant abdication of responsability. And yes, if we are talking such amounts of money, abdication is an appropriate term. The things will only get interesting when they try to outsource the "shield" ei nuclear weapons. People are and will be sheep, but there will always be wild cards and non conformists to make things a bit more interesting.

I was in the internet before it was called internet. I partecopated to BBS, to online text RPGs, I witnessed the ascii nipples of Lenna coming out of the white-and-grey-lines-perforated printer. Rise and fall of VAX, IBM and Olivetti supercomputer. Making videos and manipulating images on Indigo, Amiga etc.

Never been on facebook, and will never be. I flew from linkedin, I do only have a personal mail adress. My citizenship is italian, but I do feel european, feel home from Lisboa to Tallin, to Istambul. I do not give a dam about Severin, but the world we live in is done like that. Only if you have enough money, you can afford not to pay what is right... ;-P

At this height the IPO cannot but fail. Who's going to buy those shares at this price? Their net income last year was like what 500m? "Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc." Are there still people stupid enough to buy from them?

CRFilms Try 15%, the cap gains. He's a greedy Mofo.

Living in a civilized, organized society requires people to contribute. I don't know how to make it any simpler. This is how things have always been.

Nice to see Bono investing £90 Million in Zuckerberg instead of paying tax in his oh so loved Ireland

I hate to disagree with many since I'm not a fan at how governments spend our tax dollars not in our best interest. But I read how Apple pays less than 19% in taxes by using offshore companies to collect their profits. I think they even got some governments to reclassify an Ipad not as a computer to avoid extra taxes.

I think since the earnings and value received by the sale of Facebook stock. Developed and executed on US soil, He should be required to pay proper taxes on it.

Regarding this case, I am wondering about two things:

(1) Why does it actually matter so much to this guy whether he has to pay US taxes or not? - Given the magnitude of fortune he has earned, it will be impossible for him to notice in terms of "happyness"/possibilites whether some millions more or less are in his bank account. So I guess the only plausible explanation is that he thinks whatever the US would do with his tax money would be used for a bad cause.

(2) Why don't countries just demand taxes based on whatever turnover is made on their soil? Obviously, any multi-national corporation can evade taxes on profits. But unless a company decides not to do any business in a country, it cannot evade taxes on turnover. And by the way: Joe User, you and me, pay taxes (VAT) on turnover whenever we buy something - no matter whether any profit or loss is involved with this transaction. So it would be only fair to also tax the turnover of companies (and sure, the tax-rate as a whole could be lower if not so much would be spoilt due to inefficient use).

PS: The facebook IPO went just as expected - again many gullible investors threw their money on a company with almost no real substance. The share price would have already dropped below its initial price if the IPO consortium had not artificially kept it a tiny bit > 38.0 - but they won't do this for long, I'd say we'll see a lower-than-initial price already within a month.

Edit: PPS: Ok, it didn't take a month, the hype was over already on the second trading day.