Apple Will Start Paying Ireland Billions Owed in Back Taxes 'Early Next Year'

[PracticalMac]

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Trying to dodge Tax is synonymous with spitting your neighbor in the face and dancing on his grave.

[Update]
I should add that no one is guilty until proven so. And that my opinion is based upon my (perhaps naive) trust in that the EU would not witch hunt Apple over an amount which in the European Union's global Economy is peanuts.

TO reiterate:
Apple was granted a tax rate by Ireland and Apple paid that tax rate correctly.

The EU says that tax rate is illegal by EU laws that Ireland agreed to.
EU is going after Ireland, not Apple (but Apple still needs to pay).

Criminal: Ireland
Willing partaker: Apple

Don't forget EU accuses Starbucks and I think Amazon also accused of more direct avoidance. Others too.

No matter where you go, companies work hard to minimize paying taxes. Trump even made it a campaign issue to pay as little taxes as possible.

 

[miniyou64]

Hilarious!

Commies! Hilarious. How do you expect things to get paid? Roads, schools, libraries, underground infrastructure....or do you expect things to "just happen"?

How did Apple happen? Did the government make Steve Jobs create a technology company?

 

[TheRealTVGuy]

Personally, I'd rather those services were provided by a government answerable to me, than a corporation answerable to its Shareholders.

Yeah, because none of our “representation” in Washington DC is answerable to donors and lobbyists...

What happens when we reach the point where we technically have representation, but in reality do not?

 

[niun]

How did Apple happen? Did the government make Steve Jobs create a technology company?

Woz created a computer. Jobs marketed that computer.
How did Apple get into this mess?
Ireland gave them a special tax rate against EU regulations and totally without Apple input . Apple said hells yeah.
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TO reiterate:
Apple was granted a tax rate by Ireland and Apple paid that tax rate correctly

Seriously. Does anyone truly believe that Ireland got to this 0.005% tax rate by themselves?
Apple was just the patsy in all of this? Really?

 

[Baymowe335]

When a company the size of Apple with the earnings of Apple fight to avoid paying the Tax that we ALL have to pay and pay every day and land IN Jail if we avoid paying, it puts this company and its executives in a seriously unsociable light.

And then publicly stating that they're fighting to avoid it just makes me want to vomit. I pay about 40% of all the earnings I make and with those 60% I purchase an Apple product.

Trying to dodge Tax is synonymous with spitting your neighbor in the face and dancing on his grave.

[Update]
I should add that no one is guilty until proven so. And that my opinion is based upon my (perhaps naive) trust in that the EU would not witch hunt Apple over an amount which in the European Union's global Economy is peanuts.

Apple has an obligation to its shareholders. They clearly believe they have violated no law and are fighting it as they should.

Welcome to the real world. Publicly traded companies answer to the shareholders.

They aren’t opening their checkbook unless they are forced to and rightfully so. Ireland doesn’t even want the money.

 

[weckart]

. Ireland doesn’t even want the money.

Because Ireland gets the money regardless. If not from Apple then out of the pockets of other EU taxpayers. Either way, Ireland gets paid. If the EU turned around and said: "nothing for you Ireland", then you can bet Ireland would be after Apple.

EU taxpayers don't see why they should subsidise the Xmas spending of Apple shareholders. That is all.

 

[niun]

Ireland doesn’t even want the money

I'm sure the tax payer on the street wouldn't mind it. After the €65 billion bank bailout that screwed over every man, woman and child for the decade.

The Irish government might not want the money.

 

[PracticalMac]

Woz created a computer. Jobs marketed that computer.
How did Apple get into this mess?
Ireland gave them a special tax rate against EU regulations and totally without Apple input . Apple said hells yeah.


Seriously. Does anyone truly believe that Ireland got to this 0.005% tax rate by themselves?
Apple was just the patsy in all of this? Really?

You sort of answered this question.
Probably Apple, then under John Sculley (considered a bad CEO, one of Jobs big mistakes), was asking around for low taxes, and Ireland desperate to get such a well known brand on their ground offered an illegal rate.
And Apple took it.

Ethically Apple should have made sure everything correct themselves, but name me one company on the stock market who would willing give up millions of $$$?
Especially during a time (90's) when Apple was in danger of going bankrupt?

Again, Ireland is the one accused of breaking the law, and one could say Apple was a (willing) victim.