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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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