For years Cook and others have been taking the stance that they are just following the laws and if people want them to pay more tax then they should get the law changed, and then Apple will happily comply. Now we see the hypocrisy: when faced with actual law saying they should pay tax do they actually happily agree to pay the tax? No, they turn around and say that they object to the law and argue the law is invalid. So what we have here is not a good corporate citizen just happily paying what taxes it is due. What we have is just like any corporation: an entity that will cynically seek to avoid and minimize its tax using any argument available and they have absolutely no interest in paying their "fair share" or contributing back to society under any tax system. So we have to just remember this next time they say "Well if you want more tax, change the law" because that is a completely insincere lie on their part.