It depends on the terms of Brexit - which is yet to be started and negotiated. If UK will end up like Norway, it will be very similar to being in the EU in terms of taxes and customs.
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It depends on the terms of Brexit - which is yet to be started and negotiated. If UK will end up like Norway, it will be very similar to being in the EU in terms of taxes and customs.
They didn't choose London - they already had many offices in London. This is consolidating them into one building.
An iconic company occupying the site pictured on an iconic album from an iconic band.
Undeniable proof that the universe, indeed, makes sense, if only in an inscrutable way.
Undeniable proof that the universe, indeed, makes sense, if only in an inscrutable way.
Suppose it's the capital, but it would make a refreshing change, always been partial to York myself, wonder if anyone in the company ever suggests they go somewhere other than the capital.
You, and other people making similar statements really need to educate yourselves. Tax AVOIDANCE, which is what Apple et al are doing, is using legal means to lower one's tax obligations. It'd be like you and me deducting medical and tuition (and in some place, mortgage interest) expenses from our income to lower our tax burden. Apple is just doing this on a much grander scale.
Tax EVASION, which is the crime you are accusing et al of, is what one is guilty of if use illegal means to avoid paying tax, for example, not filing a tax return, or claiming expenses you didn't incur, etc.
Tim Cook isn't lying when he says Apple pays all the tax they're legally obliged to, but he also has a judiciary duty to Apple's shareholders to minimize Apple's tax burden as much as legally possible. In short: Apple is playing by the rules. Now, whether or not the rules are FAIR is another conversation (in other words: hate the game not the player). Just remember that most people who come up with these rules are very wealthy, so of course they're gonna include legal loopholes that don't really work for normal folk like you and me.
It's an iconic building too, who doesn't recognise it. From Pink Floyd, to James Bond, Doctor Who and so on.
Depends how we leave, people seem to think Brexit means more than it most likely will.
Is that a Joke - virtually every train that leaves Victoria goes through Battersea Park Station, and the adjacent (300m away) Queenstown Road station has every train leaving Waterloo running through it!? Although Clapham Junction is supposedly the busiest railway station in the world, more trains go through the crossover of lines west and South of the power station than go through Clapham Junction.
The Northern Line extension to Battersea is a complete waste of time and money - not only are there two railway stations more or less next door to the power station, there are numerous bus routes that are short rides to Sloane Square, Clapham Common and Vauxhall underground stations (District/Circle, Northern and Victoria lines).
A lot of the new development in the area is closer to Vauxhall underground station than it will be to the Northern line extension. From Cringle Street to Vauxhall underground is less than a mile, and an 18 minute walk beside the river (according the Google).
As to people moving into flats at the development by December... there's a pig flying over that power station!
Why? It sounds like the EU is going to tax Apple no matter what, so having an offshore non-EU headquarters in a country closely tied to the US and with excellent research (Oxbridge) locally might make sense.
It seems to give a feeling of going to work here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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Pretty cool.
My biggest association with this place is Ark of the Arts in the excellent movie Children of Men.
With the flying pig, of course.
I knew it from the Pink Floyd Album, but I love that locale from one of my favorite movies. If you haven't seen this flick, DO!!! I was actually going to post almost verbatim what you did. The continuous shot of the fight at the end is one of the greatest pieces of cinema ever!!!
That is probably one of the most idiotic things I've heard...
Moving business to the UK at this point in time is insane as the Brexit brings a lot of risks and uncertainty and next to little or no opportunities...
Especially the loss of an open market to ober 500 million people is one of the biggest obstacles. And the fundamental principles of the EU clearly state: No free market access without freedom of movement!
Now, consolidating what they have spread around London on the other side might make sense in terms of having everyone in just one spot, rather than many.
No, you won't. You'll be stuck on an island with no land corridor to anywhere.
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Damn. You beat me to it.That's the power plant on the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals...
Being a huge Pink Floyd fan, last time I visited London I had a taxi stop within eye sight of this landmark so I could snap a quick photo. (I'm such a geek.) Employees better be rocking some "Dogs" or "Sheep". Awesome.
Be careful...with all the Frank Ocean and David Guetta loving millennials on this forum, they have absolutely no clue about good music or about Pink Floyd.That's the power plant on the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals...
No they won't because the British won't put up with them paying 0.005% tax rates!
Whether Britain is "part of Europe" depends so much on who you ask. I was living over there for awhile while the Channel Tunnel was under construction and heard lots of complaints about how it would destroy Britain's cherished status as an island separate and apart from the Continent. It's also difficult to read the Brexit vote as anything short of a repudiation of the concept of Britain being "part of Europe."