Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes

Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by benjaminl on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:37PM (#16173561)

Yes, that is correct but since the US had until recently the highest corporate tax in the OECD, the US corporation will would almost always pay more taxes on German income than a German corporation would on German it’s German income. Giving the US corporation a systematic disadvantage unless they kept the money out of the US. But all this has now changed.

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @08:52PM (#16173973)

> What is little known about this tax bill

> But all this has now changed

I live in Australia. As a casual outside observer, can you inform me as to whether this tax bill has passed in to legislation, or is likely to?

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by stevenwoo on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:15AM (#16174878)

It passed, but there are parts of the bill that only last ten years (those applying to personal/small business taxes), and then those tax rules revert to the previous version after ten years unless they are passed again under non-Byrd rules in the Senate. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-14/how-the-b...

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by cavisne on Thursday January 18, 2018 @03:19AM (#16175520)

Which will of course be extended as no government would survive a personal tax increase

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by pg314 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:15AM (#16175751)

A 'personal tax increase' does not have to be across the board. You could e.g. increase the marginal rate for incomes above $1 million, while keeping other rates the same. That would not be politically difficult. Divide et impera.

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by SolarNet on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:07AM (#16175712)

Which assumes rational government. Our government is controlled by one party and yet we are heading to a government shutdown over immigration. Rational seems far away.

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by talmand on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:40AM (#16177317)

If the opposing party is threatening shutdown of the government then it would seem that the government is not ruled by that single party.

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by pwinnski on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:47PM (#16179329)

That single party has the majority of both houses of Congress and also the White House, and yet cannot manage to get a majority vote in the Senate because of disagreement within their own party.

The opposing party is not threatening shutdown. A group within the majority is. Since that group within the majority party won't play ball, the majority of the majority party is hoping to garner some support from the minority party.

As it happens, some of the changes they want to make would require 60% of votes rather than just 50%+1, but they haven't yet demonstrated they can get to 50%+1, so that's irrelevant here.

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by jldugger on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:29PM (#16174157)

It's law: http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_small_ar...

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Re:Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash ... by trothamel on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @08:57PM (#16173997)

It's law, as of a few weeks ago. Some provisions will go into effect over the course of this year.

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