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Re:A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point by charlesdm on Thursday September 01, 2016 @07:46AM (#12404479)
1. Regardless of Apple, states should make good + compliant laws. Ireland clearly messed up here.

2. If Ireland would've done a good job, Apple wouldn't be having this problem today. Which probably means Apple will recover the tax payable from Ireland, through damages.

3. There's plenty of tax optimising any business owner can do.

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Re:A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point by peteretep on Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:55AM (#12404852) 

    > There's plenty of tax optimising any business
    > owner can do
But there's also a lot that companies that aren't Apple-sized can't do, as per the article.
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Re:A Tax Expert Takes Tim Cook's EU Letter Apart Point by Point by charlesdm on Thursday September 01, 2016 @09:20AM (#12405002)
Of course, but a lot of it has to do with scale as well. There's a lot of non tax stuff that Apple can do, that smaller companies can't either, e.g. negotiating procurement deals on certain electronics forcing the supplier to work on razor-thin margins.
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