Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue

Re:Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue by gaius on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:51PM (#15846384)

I suspect the deal is "we'll help you evade the taxes you should be paying other countries if you give us a slice"

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Re:Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue by davweb on Monday December 04, 2017 @02:00PM (#15846458)

That's more or less what was already happening; which is why the EU told the Irish government they had to stop giving Apple a preferential tax rate unavailable to other companies. Ireland didn't want to collect this money.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue by IBM on Monday December 04, 2017 @02:09PM (#15846518)

The "deal" is that Ireland is holding the back taxes in escrow until the appeals are exhausted. And because it's such a large amount, Ireland had to hire managers/custodians for it. The terms are probably about what the money is going to be invested in.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue by djroomba on Monday December 04, 2017 @02:29PM (#15846683)

This is what will happen. Its a miscarriage of international justice.

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