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Apple Planning New UK Headquarters in London's Historic Battersea Power Station
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Pretty cool.
My biggest association with this place is Ark of the Arts in the excellent movie Children of Men.
Flying pig included, of course.
My biggest association with this place is Ark of the Arts in the excellent movie Children of Men.
Flying pig included, of course.
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Who do you think is responsible for them paying so little to the tax man. Is it Apple, who are a company selling products trying to make as much money as they can. Or the government, for offering them such low tax rates.
If mr VAT was to come to your work tomorrow and offer you the chance to pay 90% less income tax every month, would you say no! I have made enough money it's only right that I pay the full rate of tax?
What are they going to stock the new offices with? 2 year old Macs, like the rest of us?
Nope, they use Apples secret stash of up-to-date cutting edge Macs we don't get to see.
Hey gang, where does Canadian Bacon come from? Canadian pigs that say "Oink, eh?"
Depends, actual bacon, film or slang (of which there are at least two variations I know of) you need to be more specific
Why keep spreading false info and make it look as if Apple etc. are not paying their taxes?
They ALL pay EVERY tax dollar they legally own.
The evasion is related to tax laws, which none of them passed.
That's politicians at work for you. Countries actually competing.
There is a saying in a baseball movie:
IF you build it, they will come.
Change the laws and they will go!
Business is about money , not morals.
What you want to do is distribute other people's money for the well being of others.
Not happening.
I was just about to put something along the same lines. New Euro HQ when they get out of Ireland.
I would pay as little tax as I legally were entitled to BUT I then wouldn't go round spouting on about how much good I do in society or how my company "does no harm".
Anyway - Fine sentiment coming from someone who apparently lives in a country that gets more pro-rata from the UK taxman than the rest of the Nation and culturally doesn't understand the concept of taxes being distributed fairly.
An article from the Guardian from 2009, with photos of the interior of the building as it looked then.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/sep/02/battersea-power-station-architecture
So many schemes for re-using the building have come and gone over the years. Has anyone seen renderings of Apple's plan for the interior space?
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/sep/02/battersea-power-station-architecture
So many schemes for re-using the building have come and gone over the years. Has anyone seen renderings of Apple's plan for the interior space?
Three minutes up the line is Victoria Station. That mainline enough for you?
Five minutes the other way is Clapham Junction, the busiest mainline railway junction in the UK.
On a good day when Southern staff aren't on strike.
However, it's been good seeing Battersea power station rising from its derelict state from the train every day.
It's also just down the road from the new US Embassy (moving from Grosvenor Square; opening next year) and just round the corner from where I live!
There is another embassy going down there in the near future. I want to say the Chinese but I can't remember.
Battersea Power Station is my favourite London building.
Do they do design and engineering work outside of Cupertino? I just can't figure why they would need so much office space. Nor why it would need to be in a premium location. Is their sales, accounting and legal staff that big?
...unless London declares itself an independent state and stays in the EU (London voted solidly for Remain, the City doesn't want to lose EU business and the EU doesn't particularly want to lose the City). Time to move the English capital back to Winchester, maybe
Did someone mention pigs on the wing...?
Well I am shocked. I didn't think a reputable company would touch this dump of a country with a bargepole after the retards in the UK voted to leave Europe.
They voted to leave the EU, not move continent, we will still be part of Europe.
Said the person who admits he would pay as little tax as he could get away with.
And I take it your must be referring to the United Kingdom, because I'm British. I'm also not responsible for idiotic rulings by politicians, whom based on many of their exploits shouldn't really be trusted to run a country. Nor am I a xenophobic who would make broad sweeping statements against an entire country and the knowledge any individual within may have.
It's sad really, I personally don't care because as an individual I get none of the money you are referring to so none of this applies to me. Unless you count the higher than average tax I have to pay.
But if that's what fuels your fire perhaps you should do your research better. There is in fact another part of the United Kingdom that gets more per head from the UK taxman than Scotland does.
I'm also assuming therefore you're using typically biased figures [EDIT] to fall back on, rather than blindly ignoring the fact that the last government expenditure and revenue report showed Scotland had actually raised more revenue per head than the UK average.
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That's the power plant on the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals...
they need to put a PERMANENT pig flying over that
It's a shame they've chosen to HQ in London. They could have gotten much better and cheaper office space outside London. Sadly American companies don't seem to realise there are great cities in the UK outside London.
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I've worked for big US corporations in the IT sector and they're all morally bankrupt.
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I've worked for big US corporations in the IT sector and they're all morally bankrupt.