Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday November 07 2017, @08:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the must-be-galling dept.

Following a meeting between Apple's CEO Tim Cook and Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, Varadkar said that Apple is not committed to going forward with a planned $1 billion datacenter:

A planned $1 billion Apple data center is in doubt after Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the U.S. company's Chief Executive Tim Cook would no longer commit to it, adding that Dublin would do whatever necessary to get it built.

Apple announced plans in February 2015 to build the facility in a rural location in the west of Ireland to take advantage of green energy sources nearby, but the project has faced a two-year delay due to planning objections.

In a meeting on Thursday, Cook did not commit to going ahead with it, Varadkar told state broadcaster RTE. "We didn't get a start date, or a definite commitment or anything like that," said Varadkar, who is on a tour of the United States to meet investors, adding he had told Cook that the government would do "anything within our power" to facilitate the resumption of the project.

Also at City A.M.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 07 2017, @08:32PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 07 2017, @08:32PM (#593803)

    They outta threaten to kick Apple out - Apple's using Ireland as a tax shelter.

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   +1  
       Insightful=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   1  
  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by gawdonblue on Tuesday November 07 2017, @08:48PM (5 children)

    by gawdonblue (412) on Tuesday November 07 2017, @08:48PM (#593807)

    Yeah, wonder if they asked for the billions in back taxes at the same meeting?

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by qzm on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:17PM (4 children)

    by qzm (3260) on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:17PM (#593845)

    Apple already moved most of that, it is now based in Jersey.

    And of course they were almost certainly never planning to build that data center anyway, it was just part of the game to get their 'special' tax status.
    It is even more of a joke that they claim the 'value' of their work not resides in Jersey, where they dont even pretend to do any actual development.

    The hammer needs to be bought down on this - they claim its all legitimate because they claim profits should be priced where the actual 'value' of the product is created.
    So, Apple, perhaps you would like to point to the huge R&D efforts you operate in Jersey?
    A branch office of the offshore tax avoidance firm Appleby doesnt really count now, does it?

    http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/07/technology/apple-tax-jersey-paradise-papers/index.html [cnn.com]

    I have no doubt some pockets were very nicely lined over all of this though - pity the unwashed masses in Ireland will never see a dollar.

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:24PM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:24PM (#593850) Homepage Journal

      I worked at 6 Infinite Loop at a time when the company had 11,000. Now it has something like 60,000 - maybe more by now - but all the manufacturing is done by contractors.

      That's why I cannot keep up with their ever-changing deprecations.

      --
      Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 07 2017, @11:02PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 07 2017, @11:02PM (#593866)

      Aren't the patricks super smart? They thought being a tax shelter within EU will bring them the pot of gold.

      Maybe the limeys were right about the Irish.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday November 07 2017, @11:08PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 07 2017, @11:08PM (#593869) Journal

        Aren't the patricks super smart?

        Yes, they are. They got rid of an entity that was not contributing anything of value to them. Even the office space they took was a waste of resources, filled as it was with lawyers and crooked bean- counters.

        --
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @08:23AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @08:23AM (#593986)

      Jersey is not part of the EU, Apple has not moved their EU headquarters. They just moved huge amount of cash to Jersey since the tax is 0% there for foreign companies.