Posts by Crowley

Quote: Originally Posted by Droid  Except the government is responsible for building the roads that deliver Apple's products, the government also set up the system that educated many of the people who work at Apple....

Incorporating a company gives certain government-granted privileges, not least of which is limited liability, a massive, massive boon for shareholders. Financial reporting and corporation tax are the price for that privilege. If...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  Nonsense. First, the subsidiaries do not exist for that reason. If you read Cook's statement, he specifically points out that they're REQUIRED to have subsidiaries in some...

What an unproductive exchange.  We should form a government.

Quote:Originally Posted by MJ1970 Sickening? On what objective basis have you arrived at this conclusion (and this rate)? Why do I need an objective basis, is the fact that I feel a bit sick not good cause for me as a free-minded...

No, what's absurd is that they've been allowed to.  An effective tax rate of less than 5% for outside the US is pretty sickening.  If you hate government and tax in the US that's fine, do what you want over there, but let...

If the subsidiaries exist solely to provide a channel to evade tax I'd say that's a pretty absurd state of affairs.

I like the leeway granted in not straying beyond "etc", so on those terms I'll agree.

Depends what things you would or would not otherwise do, and why the government is impelled to force you to do or not them I suppose.   Though I tend not to advocate either way with regards the US government.  Not my...

Crikey, $900m.  That may not be technically criminal, but it's tempting to call it that.  Outrageous that this has been allowed to happen.