Posts by Crowley

Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips  Actually I'm not asking for the smoking gun at all. Nor am I discussing the IP issue Marvin mentioned. Crowley is stating the smoking gun you refer to (assuming you are...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  Funny how none of those support your claims. You said that AOI buys phones at cost from China and sells them to the US at just below retail. 1. Where's your evidence for...

Quote: Originally Posted by Steven N.  There is no "international tax system". There are just hundreds of individual national tax systems. The problem is, why pray tell would Ireland want to prevent...

Quote:Originally Posted by MJ1970 Unless you're investor, then it's only curiosity. For the tax authorities, the only reason is so they can pick their pocket better.That's a perjorative way of putting it. One might also say that the...

Me, so I can answer the question. Tax authorities too no doubt.

Quote: Originally Posted by digitalclips  I'm still waiting for a response please (see a wee bit earlier up the page).     Does the post underneath yours not satisfy this?   Apple Inc doesn't...

True, but I don't think it follows that there's nothing that can be done with it.   Good legal policy could possibly be phrased be to compel companies to accurately represent where economic activity takes place, for...

If they're talented maybe.  The talented ones tend to get gobbled up by the corporations though.  And there's always a risk that jobbing tax lawyers will help clean up policy, then go off and sell specialist knowledge about...

Quote: Originally Posted by studiomusic  And Apple follows the rules.     And no one's arguing against that either.  I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

But how do you enact reform without knowing what the loopholes are that you're trying to close?  Surely that's the point of the hearings, to draw that information out and paint a full picture of the ways that companies (not just...