On 2018-04-07 23:00:49 +0000, dorayme said:
In article ,
nospam wrote:
In article , RJH wrote:

I would argue, quite successfully, that Apple pays nothing like every
tax dollar they should.

That is a lie, they pay ever dollar they are required to, just like
everyone else.

It's not a lie. It's an opinion that's based on evidence. And is
coincidentally shared by a lot of people. Not you, obvs ;-)

it absolutely is a lie. the evidence is very clear that apple pays what
they owe.

Bull****.

Apple pays *all* the appropriate sales taxes in every country. They
also pay *all* the appropriate income tax in the countries where they
actually have a regional office AND where they make an actual
*profitable* *income*.

What most fools do not understand is that Apple doesn't actually make a
profitable income in most countries, because in those countries it's
simply a *distributor* division which gets the products (and on-sells
them to customers for the same price) from the sales / supplier
division in Apple Asia or Apple Ireland ... it's in the countries where
those *sales* divison companies that Apple pays income tax.

In the smaller countries like New Zealand there isn't even an Apple
division at all, so they couldn't make a profit here even if they
wanted to - all sales are handled by Apple Australia (which gets it's
products from Apple Asia).

It's all 100% legal, and standard accounting and tax procedure -
*EVERY* business pays income tax on the *profit*, that's after expenses
for running the business, including purchasing of stock from suppliers,
paper for the printers, toilet paper, etc., etc.