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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by boudin on Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:47AM (#38205651)
It's not weird, Ireland is part of the single market, that allows Apple to operate in the single market area from Ireland but the counter part is that there are a set of rules to avoid a race to the bottom in term of taxation. That's what this is about.
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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by NoboruWataya on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:08AM (#38205952)
> there are a set of rules to avoid a race to the bottom in term of taxation

No there aren't, or at least there weren't prior to the 15% that was recently agreed. Taxation generally is not an EU competence.

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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by axus on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:29AM (#38206226)
But fining Apple and Google is!
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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by sgjohnson on Thursday November 09, 2023 @01:21PM (#38208699)
> Taxation generally is not an EU competence.

With the sole exception of VAT and customs duties.

Corporation tax is a matter of internal revenue and none of EUs business at all. Well, now it apparently is.

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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by hurril on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:09PM (#38209464)
How much taxes will be paid in the EU when the giants leave? Ireland is making a judgement here, one where they understand that they have more to gain this way. That is: unless you are trying to make the claim that they have been bribed by Apple.
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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by TheCoelacanth on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:03PM (#38210367)
I don't think many megacorps are going to willingly abandon a fifth of the world's GDP and an even larger portion of the world's disposable income. They aren't going to leave that much money on the table.
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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by hurril on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:56AM (#38238586)
Of course not. They would move countries to the currently best option.
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