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Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach

posted by on Wednesday February 22 2017, @11:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-where-do-they-pay-tax? dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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: 1) by charon on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:58PM

    by charon (5660) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:58PM (#470390) Journal
    I was thinking exactly this as I posted this story. How can such a shameless transparent lie be spoken, let alone believed?

  • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday February 22 2017, @08:50PM

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <{axehandle} {at} {gmail.com}> on Wednesday February 22 2017, @08:50PM (#470417)

    I was thinking exactly this as I posted this story. How can such a shameless transparent lie be spoken, let alone believed?

    Because any lie which is shamelessly repeated often enough becomes generally believed*.

     

    *Any similarity between this post any any of Joseph Goebbels' statements is purely coincidental.

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    It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday February 22 2017, @10:52PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @10:52PM (#470484)

      Did the Benghazi pedo pizza place have the biggest crowds ever during the Swedish Bowling Green massacre with Iraqi WMDs?