Tim Cook - A Message to the Apple Community in Europe

[stek]

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...

Euros in Oirland, even if they do call 'Euros' 'Quids'...

And chip shops 'chippers'....

[scooterscot]

If Apple wanted favourable tax status they should have set up camp in Switzerland.

And Ireland could get themselves in a pickle quite quickly, I seem to recall the EU bailing them out very recently.

[darmstadt]

To put it into perspective: Brexiters furious as corrupt EU forces Apple to pay proper amount of tax

[DodgyAgent]

To put it into perspective: Brexiters furious as corrupt EU forces Apple to pay proper amount of tax

Define "proper amount of tax"

[NotAllThere]

Define "proper amount of tax"

Easy. What the tax authorities say is the proper amount, you filthy tax avoider.

[chopper]

The correct amount of tax

So that should be the published corporation tax rate - there shouldn't be private tax deals so that company A gets to pay a lower tax rate than company B.

If Ireland wanted to have a CT rate of 0.005% for truly mahoosive corporations and had that rate approved in its own Finance Act, then so be it. But to effectively offer bribes in the way of a special tax rate - well that shouldn't be OK.

[woohoo]

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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Wow, is it too late to get on the EU gravy train?

[LondonManc]

Wow, is it too late to get on the EU gravy train?

You wonder why most of the House of Commons wanted to remain?

Then you get asscretin and the like wanting to stay and fund these sycophants!

[GB9]

If Apple wanted favourable tax status they should have set up camp in Switzerland.

And Ireland could get themselves in a pickle quite quickly, I seem to recall the EU bailing them out very recently.

Strangely enough it was the UK at the front of bailing them out

When we leave the EU we can set corporation tax as low as we want and bring in jobs. Lots of them. I believe our government has already mentioned that to Apple.

[DodgyAgent]

Easy. What the tax authorities say is the proper amount, you filthy tax avoider.