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Re:Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue by pillowkusis on Monday December 04, 2017 @05:05PM (#15848009)
this is not exactly true, no[0]. The law's intent is to give shareholders a means of legal action if the leadership at a company destroys shareholder value for their own gain.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

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Re:Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue by Groxx on Monday December 04, 2017 @06:23PM (#15848505)
As one who isn't familiar with all this: "not exactly true" means very little. How does it behave in practice?
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