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Re:Apple now holding more cash than USA by xenophanes on Friday July 29, 2011 @03:37PM (#2823430)
IIRC, google pays like 4% taxes and apple like 25%.
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Re:Apple now holding more cash than USA by Natsu on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:02PM (#2823552)
Do you have a source on that?
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Re:Apple now holding more cash than USA by xenophanes on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:25PM (#2823654)
http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=financials&symbol=NASDAQ%...

24.4% for apple

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

2.4% for google

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Re:Apple now holding more cash than USA by alanfalcon on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:05PM (#2824013)
You're comparing Moogles and Googles here.

Why would you source Apple's effective tax rate at http://www.advfn.com/ and not point out that on the same website, Google's effective tax rate is 21.4% and not 2.4%?

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Re:Apple now holding more cash than USA by clobber on Friday July 29, 2011 @04:13PM (#2823594)
Google is 2.4%, I think.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2783382

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