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Re:Apple to Pay £3.8m Tax on £1.2bn UK Sales by kartan on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:29AM (#20326319)
> We pay all that we owe according to tax laws and local customs wherever we operate

The problem is that Apple and other big corporations have lobbied all around the world to minimise the amount of taxes they pay.

That they follow the law becomes kind of irrelevant when they have helped to design the law.

Meanwhile, 130,000 people died in the UK because governments are cutting on healthcare. (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/01/perfect-sto...)

To be legal is not the same that to be moral or even sustainable in the long term. Someone has to pay for education and health care. If the middle class have to support everyone else, who will buy the next iPhone? Long term and capitalism are at odds. We need some more thinking into it.

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