nospam wrote:

In article , sid
wrote:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/30/tech...reland/?iid=EL

I guess the rebel, anti-corporate facade is pretty much gone from
Apple?

the only dickhead is you.

Who is the bigger dickhead? The one that posts the troll in the first
place or the one that follows up to the troll with another post
exclaiming how fair and just his object of adulation is?

now that you joined the thread, the biggest dickhead would be you, and
by a mile.

Ooooh, touchy!

that link is six months old and it's yet another one of your moronic
anti-apple trolls.

not only is what they're doing *completely legal*, but minimizing taxes
is *expected* and *encouraged*.

Only by the morally bankrupt and greedy.

nonsense.

It's not nonsense at all, it just depends which side of the fence you're on.


numerous other companies do essentially the same thing, including
google, yahoo, cisco and amazon.

It's amazing how often you seem to think two wrongs make a right.

what two wrongs?

Don't pretend to be dimmer than you already are.

the tax laws are what they are and companies abiding by them is not
wrong. that's how it works.

Well duh.

if you think what the various companies are doing is illegal, then go
contact the relevant authorities. good luck on that one nd be prepared
to be laughed at.

Why are you making things up?

something that you are also ignoring is that apple *wants* to change
the tax laws, resulting in them paying *more* tax. do you hear the
other companies saying that? nope. once again, apple gets bashed for
trying to fix the problems.

I haven't ignored anything, Apples lip service means jack ****.

even ordinary taxpayers, including yourself, pays as little tax as
possible.

Ordinary tax payers get told how much they have to pay and that's that.

nonsense. nobody can be that stupid.

Do you get told what rate of tax you have to pay on whatever it is you tell
the taxman you have earned?

the irs does *not* tell a taxpayer how much to pay unless they're
delinquent, in which case they have far bigger problems, or if they're
stupid enough to request the irs to give them an amount to pay.

not only do taxpayers take deductions to which they are entitled, but
many of them hire an accountant who understands tax law and knows what
deductions are possible. most people don't because tax law is highly
convoluted and needs to be simplified.

Multi national corporations have unimaginable amounts of money to spend
on tax dodgers to work the best scams they can. Not really comparable.

of course it's comparable and there's nothing scammy about it. the only
difference is the amount paid.

Yes it is scammy, moving your hq to an island on the other side of the
Atlantic to take advantage of a dodgy governments tax loop holes and pay net
to zero tax, yes that's scammy. You can't do that can you?

unlike the other companies, however, apple wants to change the the tax
laws so that they're more fair, where they can repatriate the money.
that means they will pay *more* taxes than they currently are, just not
the absurd amounts that the current tax law requires.

If they actually gave two ****s for anything other than the amount of
money they can accumulate they would already be paying taxes at the same
rate as all the other honest companies in the countries in which they
extract exorbitant amounts of money from their customer base.

more bull****.

No, I'm afraid it's not.

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sid