This is incorrect. Just google "Apple, Ireland, Netherlands" and "tax structure" and it will provide you with at least a basic understanding as to how these companies operate. It's not just switching addresses.
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This is incorrect. Just google "Apple, Ireland, Netherlands" and "tax structure" and it will provide you with at least a basic understanding as to how these companies operate. It's not just switching addresses.
Am I the only one who hates the over-used phrase "hard-earned money/income/assets/paycheck"? Is there anyone who doesn't think their money is hard-earned? Mine's pretty easy-earned.
<---- This guy. I don't waste my time trying to find every deduction I can. My accountant actually gets mad at me when I don't have a box full of receipts.
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Wow. You really don't understand how this works, do you?
Typical corporate pandering/political stunt.
But, what ever makes people happy and feel good...I guess.
The only ones that REALLY care about race are the race-baiters. They have a huge and never-ending appetite.
But, what ever makes people happy and feel good...I guess.
The only ones that REALLY care about race are the race-baiters. They have a huge and never-ending appetite.
Yes it is. It's just switching addresses.
It's complicated in the fact that you need 2 irish companies and you pay royalties from one to the other, but it's basically just locating your company's EU headquarters in Ireland, and using their lower tax rates.
Well, that is fine for an individual, but a company that is one of the most profitable and highest worth, it doesn't make sense for them to be doing "silent" philanthropy. Apple is a publicly traded company so they have a responsibility of reporting their charitable donations, and you never read about Apple giving a lot of money to charity.
Being quiet about charity is the same as doing nothing.
I have two thumbs yet I can only give this post one thumb up.
I was going to give you a million dollar and wasn't going to tell anyone else about it, but since you think that not telling = not giving, i am not gonna give you anything.....to you it would be the same!
Summation: 'All companies rape the working class, so Apple is just like everyone else, so please get over yourself'.
nice....
Considering Macrumors is a private website and not related to the government, free speech doesn't apply.
Including paying the minimum taxes that they can get away with.
Do you actually pay more than the minimum you're supposed to by law?
Mhm, I'm sure the exploitation of Chinese labor is what you actually have a problem with here. You keep convincing yourself of that.
My "problem" with what?
Glorifying MLK who stated that people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin while Cook runs programs which specifically single out people because of the color of their skin?
ugh, lex luthor. come on.
Personally, I thought the OP was talking about Martin Luther from the Reformation days.
Now you see, this is a completely different gripe from your first post. Please specify your agenda more clearly.
IMO Apple should be doing less of these as it is a global corporation who's focus is profit, this is just advertising, at it's worst, hey look at what Apple is doing etc etc....
Me too. People should never be given a job based on their race. It should always come down to their qualifications. Diversification for the sake of diversification is nauseatingly stupid. There is nothing racist about having a board full of qualified people that worked their asses off to get there. Making it something it's not is why the stupidity that is racism still exists.
The man also envisioned this:
Which goes against this notion that we have to do XYZ simply based on the color of ones skin.
Still selling people otherwise flagship iPhone and iPad models with 16GB in 2016
Ahh you're right. Racism doesn't exist, it's only people *complaining* about racism that do
This doesn't exist. There is no program to ensure people get jobs because of their race, regardless of performance or qualifications.
There are, however, programs that seek to increase diversity by choosing a qualified POC/woman/LGBT person over a qualified white/male/straight person. In these cases, all of the applicants are qualified.
These programs are a response to the fact that employers exhibit [usually unintentional] bias in hiring. All humans exhibit unjustified bias, it's part of being human. The key is to recognize it and put in safeguards to limit or prevent it.
It's also not accurate, at all.
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While I'm a huge Apple fan, it does seem strange for them or any other corporation to invoke MLK considering he would likely have problems with how much money they possess and how little of it they use to make the world a better place. Y'all know that Dr. MLK was a straight up communist, right? [And I don't mean it as an insult.] Individuals and corporations with billions of dollars would probably not sit well with him.
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