Top EU court orders Apple to pay €13 billion tax bill.

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• ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What has the EU ever done for us?

  A lot.

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• anguo@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apple’s tax rate in Ireland fell to 0.005% in 2014 from 0.05% in 2011.

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  • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Ireland does not give preferential tax treatment to any companies or taxpayers,” stated a spokesperson from the Irish Ministry of Finances.

    I wish the media would eviscerate these people like they used to.

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• n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds fair and good for the environment (according to Apple’s marketing logic) 👍

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• ogeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Almost the GDP of Rwanda.

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  • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you’re saying they should just buy a country and continue to not pay taxes?

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    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly, don’t give them ideas…

      If a business quite literally controls a country we are fucked.

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