How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes

[b4u]

How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes

seems a few loopholes need to be addressed :Eek:

 

[onthebottom]

I do think it's childish the way the NYT uses Apple as the example - first with Foxconn and now with global tax management.

 

[WoodPeckr]

It's really despicable how Apple avoids paying what they morally and rightfully owe!!

Apple is NO BETTER than the Mob, La Cosa Nostra or Organized Crime in this regards!!!
Then for YOU bottie to apologize for these thieving Bastards makes you look no better than a smug pathetic Corporate Whore who sold his soul to the company store, for his 30 pieces of silver!!!
Give your head a shake!!!....:Eek:

You must have no conscience, like those commies you pal around with at Foxconn!....

 

[onthebottom]

Apple is NO BETTER than the Mob, La Cosa Nostra or Organized Crime in this regards!!!
Then for YOU bottie to apologize for these thieving Bastards makes you look no better than a smug pathetic Corporate Whore who sold his soul to the company store, for his 30 pieces of silver!!!
Give your head a shake!!!....:Eek:

You must have no conscience, like those commies you pal around with at Foxconn!....

It's these childish views the NYT is playing to.....

 

[WoodPeckr]

It's these childish views the NYT is playing to.....

If you call that 'childish' you are truly a celebration of ignorance as many corporate bottoms indeed are!.....

 

[Powershot]

If I worked for a global company that didn't do shit like that, I'd wonder WTF was wrong with them. Last 3 I've worked at including current one all have things going on in Asia or the Caribbean only for tax reasons.

 

[djk]

Apple is simply practicing tax avoidance. Which is perfectly legal.

I'm curious, b4u. Where's your post about this link when it was all the rage in 2010?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-...illion-u-s-revenue-lost-to-tax-loopholes.html

Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda.

Google’s income shifting -- involving strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” -- helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries.

 

[OddSox]

Which is exactly why the idea of raising corporate taxes is so futile - it only hurts the little guys (who are actually the ones driving employment). The big bad corporations just move the profits somewhere else...

 

[WoodPeckr]

...The big bad corporations just move the profits somewhere else...

So when they bring their 'stuff' back home and try to sell it at home, tax the fark out of the big bad rat bastards and the problem is solved!....:eyebrows:

 

[splooge]

apple customers must be much more productive as they don't have to sit around and hate on apple all day and night.

 

[Keebler Elf]

You can never close all the loopholes because the "best and the brightest" tax minds get lured away from their crummy government salaries (remember that next time you criticize government workers) to work for corporations who pay them richly to find the loopholes. So when the smarter people are working for the corporations getting taxed, don't be surprised when they come up with creative ways to outsmart the government.

 

[WoodPeckr]

You can never close all the loopholes because the "best and the brightest" tax minds get lured away from their crummy government salaries (remember that next time you criticize government workers) to work for corporations who pay them richly to find the loopholes.

Truth is the 'system' is so corrupt the "best and the brightest" in fact write the loopholes now.

 

[WoodPeckr]

apple customers must be much more productive as they don't have to sit around and hate on apple all day and night.

!?!!?.... here comes the 'hater carping again'....
These weasels are avoiding taxes EXACTLY the way the Mob used to!!!
By your 'funny logic' criticizing Mob tax avoidance must make you a Mob hater also....

 

[Keebler Elf]

While I don't like it, I don't blame companies for taking advantage of loopholes. As Apple said, to do otherwise would put them at a competitive disadvantage to other companies.

Apple is just a symptom; they need to go after the disease at its source (i.e., the loopholes). But that's easier said than done because you can only control your own country's tax system and other countries will be all too happy to lure away your investors.

 

[onthebottom]

apple customers must be much more productive as they don't have to sit around and hate on apple all day and night.

lol

otb

 

[onthebottom]

While I don't like it, I don't blame companies for taking advantage of loopholes. As Apple said, to do otherwise would put them at a competitive disadvantage to other companies.

Apple is just a symptom; they need to go after the disease at its source (i.e., the loopholes). But that's easier said than done because you can only control your own country's tax system and other countries will be all too happy to lure away your investors.

To say nothing of how do you explain to global shareholders that you paid more tax to X country than that country requires.....

OTB

 

[WoodPeckr]

To say nothing of how do you explain to global shareholders that you paid more tax to X country than that country requires.....

OTB

You simply tell the whining carping shareholders they are paying their fair taxes required under law.....FFS!
Hard to believe you went to business school if you cant understand that!....

 

[onthebottom]

You simply tell the whining carping shareholders they are paying their fair taxes required under law.....FFS!
Hard to believe you went to business school if you cant understand that!....

Apple (in this case) is paying their fair taxes required under law currently you farking moron....

OTB

 

[WoodPeckr]

^^^Apple is using the SAME BS line the MOB used to avoid taxes you obfuscating Idiot!!!...

 

[blackrock13]

How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes

seems a few loopholes need to be addressed :Eek:

So none of the other companies do the same? If these loopholes really irk people, close them.It would appear that most on here, save for the man-child Woodie, feel the same.