Tim Cook - A Message to the Apple Community in Europe

[Flashman]

Oh come on, he's not like the other Champagne Socialists milking the £350m per week we cough up out of our hard earned.

Campaign highlights Kinnocks' £10m EU earnings - Wales Online

It worked out their salaries and perks included:

A total of £775,000 in wages for Mrs Kinnock and £1.85m for her husband, adding up to £2,625,000;

Allowances for Mrs Kinnock’s staff and office costs of £2.9m;

A £64,564 “entertainment allowance” for Lord Kinnock;

A total of five publicly-funded pensions, worth £4.4m, allowing them to retire on £183,000 a year;

A housing allowance that allowed them both to claim accommodation costs even though, as a married couple, they lived in the same house in the Belgian capital between 1995 and 2004.

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Still waiting for the EU to investigate President Junkers tax affairs...

[sbakoola]

So George Orwell was right ... two legs good, four legs bad.

[vetran]

Yes probably right there. The opening bid in a tax settlement. Micro$oft will be sweating bricks though.

plenty of American Irish Firms out there!

Hey the harder the EU make it for investors the better it is for UK PLC.

[bobspud]

Still waiting for the EU to investigate President Junkers tax affairs...

Why would they do that? This is a bunch of crooks that can't get their own budgets audited and signed off. The EU looking for stolen/misappropriated money is NEVER going to happen.

[LondonManc]

Why would they do that? This is a bunch of crooks that can't get their own budgets audited and signed off. The EU looking for stolen/misappropriated money is NEVER going to happen.

Correct. It's a bigger can of worms than FIFA, that's for sure.

[Flashman]

Apple tax: Downing Street says tech giant 'welcome' to come to UK after EU orders Ireland to claw back £11bn*

Britain would “welcome” Apple to the UK after the European Commission said the company should pay €13bn (£11bn) in unpaid taxes to the Irish state, Downing Street said on Tuesday.

Would be good if they'd relocate to a part of the country that needs the jobs and not the South East.

Don't move to London
Don't move to London
Don't move to London

Apple Corp announces plans to relocate to London .

[NotAllThere]

Yes probably right there. The opening bid in a tax settlement. Micro$oft will be sweating bricks though.

Careful - this could end up being merged into the Brexit thread.

I thoroughly dislike Apple and all they stand for, so I really couldn't give a stuff.

[AtW]

Would be good if they'd relocate to a part of the country that needs the jobs and not the South East.

Why would they relocate to place with higher corp tax and which would be outside of EU soon?

[stek]

Yes probably right there. The opening bid in a tax settlement. Micro$oft will be sweating bricks though.

Salesforce and Google too...

[meridian]

It is given that Apple will appeal this decision. Irish government will do so as well and it seems even US Treasury have had their say. I believe the final outcome will be a settlement for a sum much much less than £11 billion

6,000 Apple workers in Ireland, vs an £11b windfall. Maybe Ireland could use that to pay off the IMF loans that paid off the German bank bond holders...