Re:A Message to the Apple Community in Europe
by bluedevil2k on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @09:53AM
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Why is it unfair? You're automatically jumping to the assumption that individual people should pay the same tax rate as a corporation. Why? Just because most countries do it now? It wasn't done through most of history though. What about the notion that corporations should pay no tax at all, and the only taxes should be on individuals.
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Re:A Message to the Apple Community in Europe
by themihai on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @10:10AM
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> Why is it unfair? You're automatically jumping to the assumption that individual people should pay the same tax rate as a corporation.
I didn't say that corporations should be the same tax as individuals. I've said that's unfair for Apple to pay less tax than any other EU corporation/company. How can you compete with Apple if they pay no tax and your start-up pays 20% ? How could Apple have succeeded if they were to pay 20% tax and all the others (i.e. IBM) was to pay no tax?
> What about the notion that corporations should pay no tax at all, and the only taxes should be on individuals.
That would be basically slavery of foreign people(not nice).
Re:A Message to the Apple Community in Europe
by bluedevil2k on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @12:46PM
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Slavery? That's quite a jump of thought from tax policy. Maybe you should reconsider your statement
Re:A Message to the Apple Community in Europe
by themihai on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @02:50PM
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The burden of the taxes they don't pay winds up on others, who have to make up the difference. What is when you are forced to work for a powerful company that pays you nothing? Extortion, fraud?