ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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Well, it would certainly be 'just desserts'!
You think you are over taxed? What about Apple?
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Interestingly, it should really be 'just deserts'! (I didn't know that.)Well, it would certainly be 'just desserts'!
PhilDawson8270
Veteran
They may just crumble under the pressure though
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
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- West Somerset
I bet they're quaking right down to the core.
marknotgeorge
Hol den Vorschlaghammer!
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- Derby.
The core of the issue, to me at least, is this:
This clearly shows to me that Apple care nothing for their employees and the societies in which they sell their overpriced wares. This is because corporation taxes are based on profits, and so are based on the money that's left after employee costs are taken into accounts. Thus higher taxes only directly harm the dividends. Only if the company itself chooses to shed employees will it harm jobs.
From the BBC said:
This clearly shows to me that Apple care nothing for their employees and the societies in which they sell their overpriced wares. This is because corporation taxes are based on profits, and so are based on the money that's left after employee costs are taken into accounts. Thus higher taxes only directly harm the dividends. Only if the company itself chooses to shed employees will it harm jobs.
Drago
Legendary Member
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They're going to have to return their slice of the pie. You can bet the MD made a tart remark when they heard about it.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
It makes the news at the moment but given time, it will fade away and Apple will get away with it or just pay a token tax because they are rich and powerful. On the other hand, if I owed the taxman £50, it wouldn't make the news but I would be forced to pay it or the bailiffs would come in. "If you are rich and powerful" etc....etc.....etc...as the song goes. ( it is a French song by the way called: " Selon que vous serez..." by Michel Sardou.)
PhilDawson8270
Veteran
So what it is it if they have done something illegal?
Tin Pot
Guru
What's more interesting is that Ireland don't want them to pay it, Apple don't want to pay it, only the EU does.
This will cripple the stumbling Irish economy, as businesses who are only there for beneficial taxation leave.
Victory for the anarchocommunists though, they will be chuffed.
This will cripple the stumbling Irish economy, as businesses who are only there for beneficial taxation leave.
Victory for the anarchocommunists though, they will be chuffed.
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stearman65
Well-Known Member
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A few years ago, Ireland was almost bankrupt, I suppose this was done to boost their economy, now the EU have caught up with them, probably prompted by the UK chasing tax avoiders?
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
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- Leicester
Our government need to phone Apple up and get them to move all their staff to the UK
jefmcg
Guru
Did you think it meant "the pudding you are entitled to"?
(my mother recounted the story of returning a letter she had dictated to be retyped - back in the day, obvs - that included the phrase "a sort of Damocles")
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
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As a kid, I assumed it came from the draconian attitude of some parents, guardians and schools to insist you eat everything on your plate, no matter how much your taste buds protested. The idiom has always seemed rather sinister...Did you think it meant "the pudding you are entitled to"?
(my mother recounted the story of returning a letter she had dictated to be retyped - back in the day, obvs - that included the phrase "a sort of Damocles")
PhilDawson8270
Veteran
What happens if the Irish government refuse to enforce this?
