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Re:Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook by valuearb on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @09:29AM (#15652684)
Apple is the biggest taxpayer in the world. It pays every bit of tax it owes. It should be taxed less, not more. Corporate income taxes are corrosive to maintaining our society.
Re:Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook by TrinaryWorksToo on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:49AM (#15653563)
I'm not going to argue whether or not it pays all the taxes it owes. I'm pointing out that if they have access to offshore accounts that most businesses can't, they gain an unfair advantage over those other businesses. If you want to remove corporate income taxes, it should happen at the same time, not selectively to larger corporations.
Re:Paradise Papers: Dear Tim Cook by valuearb on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:38PM (#15656127)
They don't "have access to offshore accounts that most businesses don't". They naturally earn most of their profits internationally, and pay taxes to the countries they earn those profits in. If they return those international profits to the US, they'll lose another 40%+ to taxes (closer to 60% if you count individual dividend taxes).

So they keep the remaining profits in the lowest tax country/location they can find while it earns interest. They owe Germany nothing more.