[NEWS] EU hits Apple with $14.6 billion tax evasion bill; US outraged

[Taciturn]

Hopefully this rules in Apple's favor and acts as a precedent to eliminate all taxes except for property tax from the world.

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[e-maxx]

Taxes are useless I should be able to pay my government with cheese

[kevin 51l]

If a corporate giant of 600 something billion can't afford 14 billion then something is wrong here.

nobody just has 14.6 billion in cash lying around. they would have to downsize and sell some assets to pay it off, which would lead to a decrease in production and maybe some jobs lost.

[Nickpb 3.0]

Hopefully this rules in Apple's favor and acts as a precedent to eliminate all taxes except for property tax from the world.

what lol

why would this case show the world that we don't need taxes. Like read that statement you just made and seriously ask yourself if it makes sense

This is about "legal" tax evasion why would it inspire other countries to just remove their source of revenue

[Lord Tony®]

nobody just has 14.6 billion in cash lying around. they would have to downsize and sell some assets to pay it off, which would lead to a decrease in production and maybe some jobs lost.

They have 620 billion they can get 14.6 billion in cash like nothing.

Also payment plans, heard of it?

[e-maxx]

They have 620 billion they can get 14.6 billion in cash like nothing.

Also payment plans, heard of it?

net worth means nothing when it comes down to actual money

[Shift Kitty]

what lol

why would this case show the world that we don't need taxes. Like read that statement you just made and seriously ask yourself if it makes sense

This is about "legal" tax evasion why would it inspire other countries to just remove their source of revenue

"Yeah you know that thing that we do where everyone pays a share so that we can employ workers to like, fix the country in various ways?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, apple owes a country a bunch of money. So that kind of thing is bad."
"Oh so true!"

[Lord Tony®]

net worth means nothing when it comes down to actual money

I'm sure they have 14 billion.

[Rigel]

"Yeah you know that thing that we do where everyone pays a share so that we can employ workers to like, fix the country in various ways?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, apple owes a country a bunch of money. So that kind of thing is bad."
"Oh so true!"

yeah, i don't get why people are saying remove all taxes, when we need them to pay our sewer workers.

You don't want a forgeted privatized sewer system handling your poo, do you?

[Tactical Nuke]

I'm surprised the EU is doing anything about it

I was under the impression everyone had their richards in apple

[Maxwell.]

US needs to forget off tbh

[Tayasaurus]

As someone in the US, Apple should pay it, but unforunetly it's gonna come out of the US citizens pocket just to do it. Ridiculous that we let a corperation get so far like this.

[Nickpb 3.0]

I'm proud of apple lmao

[Akio-]

US needs to forget off tbh

legitimately fight all of us at once

[CRITAWAKETS]

Holy forget. The EU economy is going to become way better in just one shot if apple pays the bill. If apple gets out tax free bad things will happen.

Also, Apple doing something really bad. Thats totally not common!