Pay taxes like anyone else, Tim Cook, and shut up. Glad you're creating jobs, but so is anyone else and they have to pay double digit taxes, not less than 1%.
What an arrogant attitude.
This is probably a good time to repeat myself:
The EU has a VAT - value added tax system, where the taxes are allocated based on where the value to the product was added.
They do not have a sales tax based system.
No value is added in the EU, they are just a consumer. So the taxes should rightfully be applied upstream - either to the US, where the product was designed and developed, or in China where the product was built. (or Ireland where the R&D is performed *cough*).
actually sales tax is exactly the same as VAT, just a different name.
Groan.... one can't compete with this level of ignorance and arrogance.
actually it is the same really. In the US they differentiate a bit as VAT is a superset of sales tax and can only be collected by . But the effect the end user and the government is essentially the same. Yes there are some differences as VAT is a system that is funneled through the channel but in the end its the same idea and for sake of this discussion its similar
"I think that's exactly what it is," Cook said. "I think it's a desire to reallocate taxes that should be paid in the U.S. to the EU."
Wow, that's rich. Set up a corporation with the express intention of avoiding paying taxes in the US or EU, then try and play them off against each other when you get caught.
Sorry Tim, your hands are slick with red stuff.
Get caught abiding by Irish tax laws in Ireland? The EU is not ready for the global economy and should be dissolved. What the fuck do they think this is? A Socialist World?
This ludicrous politically motivated and invasive ruling is why Brexit no longer has any opposition in Great Britain.
???
There is a huge amount of opposition to exit from the EU in Great Britain, so much so that the Prime Minister is shying away from a Parliamentary vote (which has raised constitutional issues), likely because a motion to invoke Article 50 won't pass.
Where did you pull this from?
Bullshit, she has been very clear that Brexit means Brexit. Stop reading The Guardian.
Pay taxes like anyone else, Tim Cook, and shut up. Glad you're creating jobs, but so is anyone else and they have to pay double digit taxes, not less than 1%.
What an arrogant attitude.
This is probably a good time to repeat myself:
The EU has a VAT - value added tax system, where the taxes are allocated based on where the value to the product was added.
They do not have a sales tax based system.
No value is added in the EU, they are just a consumer. So the taxes should rightfully be applied upstream - either to the US, where the product was designed and developed, or in China where the product was built. (or Ireland where the R&D is performed *cough*).
actually sales tax is exactly the same as VAT, just a different name.
Groan.... one can't compete with this level of ignorance and arrogance.
actually it is the same really. In the US they differentiate a bit as VAT is a superset of sales tax and can only be collected by . But the effect the end user and the government is essentially the same. Yes there are some differences as VAT is a system that is funneled through the channel but in the end its the same idea and for sake of this discussion its similar
Vacuity piled on top of ignorance. I don't know what else to say.
He's right. But what I find interesting is that Tim Cook supports political candidates here in the US that would support imposing high taxes on Apple and other companies. I like Tim Cook a lot, but he needs to seriously take a look at his conflicting opinions.
When and where has Tim Cook ever said Apple will not pay the taxes that it is required to?
BTW: the EU has been at peace for over 70 years, thanks to the EC/EU. That's a record.
By all means, this fact alone has made the world a far better place.
Correction: Europe has had the longest stretch of peace in its history since 1945 (over 70 years), thanks to the United States of America. We occupied after WW2 and it's been at peace (not counting terrorism) ever since.
Correction: The USA military were there chiefly to stop Russian aggression (for which we are all very grateful BTW). The EC/EU is there to help stop European countries fighting each other.
Very interesting article by the former European Commissioner in The Guardian, saying publicly that the EU tax ruling is "fundamentally unfair" and that "EU member states have a sovereign right to determine their own tax laws, and state aid cannot be used to rewrite those rules. The current state-aid investigations into tax rulings appear to do exactly that." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/01/eu-state-aid-tax-avoidance-apple
As might be expected, its readers are going berserk...
Your comments are simply juvenile. Who would you sell all your crappy McDonald's and Starbucks to if they weren't there?
My comments are spot on and have time and time again proven to be correct more often than not.
Socialists, globalists and SJWs might hate me and my comments, but I do not care about those losers. They can expect only one thing, and that is to get crushed.
Yeah I'm sure the US wants to give up its military bases in stable, friendly countries. Are you 12 years old?
Some are not so stable, and some of them are not so friendly.
Age is irrelevant, facts are relevant, reality is relevant.
And your facts are? Most people are debating, sometimes emotionally, about tax. You're just making childish anti-European remarks that you haven't even thought through. The US isn't going to give up strategic military bases because of Apple. They want Apple to pay their fair share of tax too and this gives Apple more reason to do so.
BTW: the EU has been at peace for over 70 years, thanks to the EC/EU. That's a record.
By all means, this fact alone has made the world a far better place.
Correction: Europe has had the longest stretch of peace in its history since 1945 (over 70 years), thanks to the United States of America. We occupied after WW2 and it's been at peace (not counting terrorism) ever since.
Correction: The USA military were there chiefly to stop Russian aggression (for which we are all very grateful BTW). The EC/EU is there to help stop European countries fighting each other.
Yeah I'm sure the US wants to give up its military bases in stable, friendly countries. Are you 12 years old?
Some are not so stable, and some of them are not so friendly.
Age is irrelevant, facts are relevant, reality is relevant.
And your facts are? Most people are debating, sometimes emotionally, about tax. You're just making childish anti-European remarks that you haven't even thought through. The US isn't going to give up strategic military bases because of Apple. They want Apple to pay their fair share of tax too and this gives Apple more reason to do so.
I've thought things very through, and I have been anti-EU for many years now.
And no, this isn't just about any alleged taxes. I see the entire greater picture.
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When and where has Tim Cook ever said Apple will not pay the taxes that it is required to?
Let them fend for themselves.
Screw 'em.
They are in so much trouble, and it's all their own doing. What a bunch of socialist dumbasses.
As might be expected, its readers are going berserk...
Socialists, globalists and SJWs might hate me and my comments, but I do not care about those losers. They can expect only one thing, and that is to get crushed.
Some are not so stable, and some of them are not so friendly.
Age is irrelevant, facts are relevant, reality is relevant.
And no, this isn't just about any alleged taxes. I see the entire greater picture.