The Story of Apple's $14B Tax Bill

Re:The Story of Apple's $14B Tax Bill by sandstrom on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:44PM (#13223738)

That's a separate argument. Laissez-faire vs. government (or the optimal level of taxation).

My argument is that a set of tax laws exist today and as long as they do all companies should be treated the same.

> just to keep them down

As an aside, Ireland's corporate tax is 12.5%, roughly 1/3 of the US corporate tax rate (35%). So it's not like Apple is being horribly 'kept down' here.

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Re:The Story of Apple's $14B Tax Bill by Pungsnigel on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:49PM (#13223784)

Doesn't have to be, no. There are other things to tax than corporations, people and transactions being the obvious candidates.

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