1. Evasión de impuestos federales y beneficios fiscales.
Diversos reportes señalan que Palantir no pagó impuestos federales sobre la renta en el año fiscal 2025, a pesar de reportar ingresos de 1.5 mil millones de dólares, utilizando deducciones legales y reformas fiscales recientes.
- Palantir paid zero federal income taxes for fiscal year 2025 despite reporting 1.5 billion in income.
- At the 21 federal income tax rate profitable companies theoretically pay, palantir should have paid 330 million.
- This marked the 3rd consecutive year the company avoided federal income taxes by utilizing tax breaks, including stock-based compensation deductions and research expense deductions.
2. Dependencia de contratos gubernamentales y vigilancia masiva.
La compañía es criticada por recibir miles de millones de dólares de los contribuyentes para construir redes de vigilancia para agencias como el DHS, el Pentágono e ICE, lo que genera preocupaciones sobre la privacidad ciudadana.
- Palantir raked in 1.5 billion last year - including lucrative taxpayer-funded dhs contracts and paid zero federal income tax.
- Palantir is being paid billions of your tax to build one of the most powerful surveillance systems in american history while groceries, rent, and healthcare are crushing working families.
- Palantir has a 10 billion contract w the us army, its platforms used in gaza and iran. 50 of revenue comes from government sales.
3. Compensación récord del CEO y adquisiciones de lujo.
El CEO Alexander Karp ha generado indignación pública por recibir paquetes de compensación multimillonarios y realizar compras de propiedades de alto valor mientras la empresa evita sus obligaciones fiscales.
- Palantir chief alex karp earned nearly 7b in compensation last year, which might be a record.
- Palantir ceo buys monastery in old snowmass for 120 million trappist monks built st. Benedicts monastery in the mid-1950s.
- How did they spend 64 million on stock buybacks and pay their ceo 3.3 billion over roughly the same period? this tax code is a complete joke.
4. Influencia política y percepción de riesgo corporativo.
Analistas y figuras públicas describen a Palantir como una de las corporaciones más peligrosas de Estados Unidos debido a su falta de rendición de cuentas y sus estrechos vínculos con el poder político.
- Its fast becoming the most dangerous and least accountable corporation in america.
- Palantir donated millions to trump. Then got a billion dollar government contract. The anti-kickback act makes it illegal to pay for government business.
- The irs wants smarter audits. Palantir could help decide who gets flagged. The internal revenue service paid palantir 1.8 million last year to improve a custom tool.