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0 pointscloudjacker9y ago0 comments

Which is their prerogative....

You can't be on the side of "pay taxes for the sake of paying taxes because..... society and fairness!" without having an opinion on who and what your expropriated productivity is supporting

Nobody at Apple or the Treasury Dept said that pledge for 13 years of their life to support roads in Ireland

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mpweiher9y ago

This is income that was generated in the EU and taxed in the EU, except at ludicrously low rates due to a vehicle the Irish government came up with for Apple: a headquarter of their Irish operation that (for Irish tax purposes) is located nowhere in the world.

So, no, it is most definitely not their prerogative, just as it isn't the prerogative of the German or Irish government to tax Apple on their US income.

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