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Re:Apple to Pay £3.8m Tax on £1.2bn UK Sales by loxs on Monday July 01, 2019 @10:55AM (#20325866)
Do you really believe that if Apple wasn't able to reduce its official profits, the iPhone prices wouldn't rise in that country?
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Re:Apple to Pay £3.8m Tax on £1.2bn UK Sales by benj111 on Monday July 01, 2019 @01:11PM (#20327481)
Is your implication that the tax would be paid anyway?

You could equally say that if Apple didn't exist, people would buy a smartphone anyway, so the Vat would be paid anyway.

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Re:Apple to Pay £3.8m Tax on £1.2bn UK Sales by benaadams on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:08AM (#20326034)
And those price rises would increase their profits which would ...
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