Re:A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point
by gambiting on Thursday September 01, 2016 @05:56AM
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Yeah, like the bit where he says that apple does not pay the "fair share". There is no such thing. Either you pay what is required by law or you don't. Especially if what they said about being the largest taxpayer in Ireland is true. I feel about it this way - if you rented an apartment for $1000/month, and you had a room mate that paid $900 a month, why does it matter that it's only 0.00001% of his income, while the remaining $100 is 20% of yours? Could anyone say that that other room mate is somehow not paying his fair share of the rent, since it's such a minuscule percentage of his earnings?
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Re:A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point
by blub on Thursday September 01, 2016 @06:00AM
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The law says they have to pay 12%. They pay 0.005% because the Irish goverment is giving them special treatment.
No thanks, pay the 12% like everyone else or take your 6000 workplaces and shove them.
Re:A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point
by Oletros on Thursday September 01, 2016 @05:58AM
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> Either you pay what is required by law or you don't.
And according to the EC, they don't
Re:A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point
by asuffield on Thursday September 01, 2016 @06:06AM
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That's not precisely accurate. The EC's ruling is that the Irish government changed the law in an unlawful way. There has not yet been an explicit ruling on Apple's conduct, as far as I know - that's likely to take more time (years...) to happen.
Re:A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point
by Oletros on Thursday September 01, 2016 @06:17AM
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> That's not precisely accurate. The EC's ruling is that the Irish government changed the law in an unlawful way.
The ruling is that the Irish Government applied wrongly the actual law, no law has been changed
> There has not yet been an explicit ruling on Apple's conduct, as far as I know - that's likely to take more time (years...) to happen.
The investigation is not on Apple, but on the Irish Government. My comment about illegality was about the Irish Government practices, not about Apple.