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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @10:59PM
When I found out Jobs went out of his way to not pay the tag tax on his cars I knew pretty much everything I needed to know about him and taxes. He built his companies on the same tax structure. Look at how Apple, Pixar, NeXT, and Disney run themselves. Some of those are now just Apple and Disney. They play games with taxes to make sure they keep the most and everyone else gets none. They reap the profit and you pay the dime. In the mid 80s he went to Ireland to help write the very tax laws the company now uses to dodge taxes. MS does the same thing but with Delaware and Nevada.