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Hermes, Apple begin selling exclusive Apple Watch collection online [u]
rogifan_old said:Can someone explain all the hate around this product? It's not like thousands or even hundreds of Apple engineers were pulled off of other projects to work on this. I don't see why it's so distasteful to some.
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Apple's Tim Cook meets with EU antitrust chief ahead of decision on Irish taxes
latifbp said:gwydion said:
You clearly don't know about EU laws but you don't stop to post things like this that are totally wrong.
And no, a state aid is not only unilateral, and no, it is not a contract, and no EU is not taking anything were there is a loss.
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New Apple hire suggests increased interest in immersive virtual reality
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Apple's Tim Cook meets with EU antitrust chief ahead of decision on Irish taxes
boltsfan17 said:gwydion said:
Because as have been said a lot of times, they were secret agreements between Irish government and some companies.
The Irish government could have agreed with Apple and other companies that they would set the corporate tax rate at 2%, but only if they made that the official corporate tax rate applicable to all companies. That would have been their legitimate prerogative and the EU wouldn't have blinked. The minute they started setting different tax rates for different companies, Ireland stepped over a line because the effect of that move was de facto state subsidisation of the companies getting the favourable rate and it became a matter the EU could have a say about because it was no longer just a taxation matter.
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Ireland's Sinn Fein party says it will pursue Apple if company owes back taxes
ewtheckman said:gwydion said:
Because it has nothing to do with tax laws but with allegedly ilegal state aids
Bottom line, it sounds an awful lot like "gimme, gimme, gimme" to me.ewtheckman said:cnocbui said:No they aren't.
However, all taxes that multinational corporations dodge are eventually made up for by increases in taxes and charges levied on consumers.
So yes, whether additional taxes are levied directly on consumers, or via higher product prices, consumers wind up paying all taxes in the end.
No, it has nothing to do with product prices - a recent OECD report found that taxes dodged by companies get passed onto consumers in the form of increased taxes and charges.