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Re:EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf] by InsomniacL on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @06:00AM (#41499142)
Apple Ireland has over 60 open positions for roles like Machine Leaning or Data Analytics while similar sized countries like Finland, Lithuania, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary have 0.

Apple Ireland is home to Apples only self-operated manufacturing plant in the world employing ~6,000 people building iMacs to order by hand (lol). There are employment quotas to meet for the tax arrangements which is one example of how Ireland as a whole benefits.

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Re:EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf] by izacus on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @02:25AM (#41508549)
So how many decades will they have to pay taxes to recoup 13B$? :)
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Re:EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf] by InsomniacL on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @06:18AM (#41509907)
No idea, that doesn't matter though because if Ireland didn't give these massive unlawful tax deals then it wouldn't be a major tech hub for large tech companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.. and that 13b$ tax bill wouldn't exist in the first place.

Ireland is ranked 2nd with the highest GDP per capita in the world and they got there by being an unlawful tax haven benefiting as whole at the expense of others.

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