Stop terraforming taxation, says Cupertino, and let us get on with it Apple has filed its defence against the European Commission's claim it owes €13bn in back taxes in Ireland.
Apple on Monday filed a defence in which it dismissed the very idea of the US$13.75/£11bn bill, calling for the total or partial annulment of the European Commission decision that set the case in motion and suggesting the Commission pay Apple's costs into the bargain.
Cupertino's argument offers 14 pleas in law that collectively assert that the EU just doesn't understand how Apple operates and thoroughly misunderstands the way it gets stuff done in Ireland.
We therefore get familiar arguments suggesting Apple need not pay tax in Ireland because the real profit-generating work happens elsewhere. Apple Ireland "carried out only routine functions and were not involved in the development and commercialisation of Apple IP which drove profits," says Plea 4.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:41PM
Basically yes, and that as a nonresident company they paid off....er...paid their taxes properly to Ireland.
Also the link in the summary seems broken as there is a missing character in the address. The link from El Reg works or just use:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2017.053.01.0037.01.ENG&toc=OJ:C:2017:053:TOC [europa.eu]
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(Score: 1) by charon on Wednesday February 22 2017, @08:03PM