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A comment on Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B. Parent comment

Re:Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B by toomuchtodo on Saturday April 15, 2017 @07:30PM (#14123436)
I don't care about your investments, I care about entities paying their taxes.
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Re:Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B by IncRnd on Saturday April 15, 2017 @10:21PM (#14124020)
Why do you think a foreign company should pay US taxes?
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Re:Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B by Frondo on Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:46AM (#14124706)
Apple isn't a foreign company.
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Re:Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B by IncRnd on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:24PM (#14142559)
Except that the foreign company which profited by 246B is foreign. If it weren't foreign, then taxes would have been paid to the US on the monies as they were made, and there wouldn't be close to that amount of money offshore. As the article says, "Repatriation is front and center. That is good for the country and Apple." That is different from envious theft.

There is more than one company called Apple. Which one do you mean?

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Re:Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B by intended on Saturday April 15, 2017 @11:13PM (#14124142)
Is the point not about tax evasion?
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Re:Apple's cash hoard swells to $246B by IncRnd on Sunday April 16, 2017 @12:11AM (#14124275)
No. It is not even clear this is tax avoidance, let alone evasion. No country on Earth taxes companies that are foreign to it, unless they do business inside the borders.
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