Apple agrees to pay €318 million as settlement in Italian tax fraud case
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- AnonD-442781
- JiR
- 03 Jan 2016
mir, 31 Dec 2015Apple does not owe anyone, any amount of money. They have g... moreApple cannot exist in any country without the institutions that were in place. They profit from the society and that's why they need to pay back the society, to keep it running. This goes for each and every country they operate in individually. Stop being so thick. It's the same reason anyone pays tax.
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- Kpaul
- w43
- 02 Jan 2016
mir, 31 Dec 2015Apple does not owe anyone, any amount of money. They have g... moreSupport needed for whom, who r not able to pay (whatever economically or Admin issue)....Not for a fraud...
And we think u r Supporting to do again and agian that nonsense activities....So plz stop this nonsense support......
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- Anonymous
- RIG
- 02 Jan 2016
this article made android user feel better for nothing
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- Anonymous
- MkX
- 01 Jan 2016
mir, 31 Dec 2015Apple does not owe anyone, any amount of money. They have g... moreEven your brain is patented by Apple. Pathetic.
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- AnonD-60230
- PWh
- 01 Jan 2016
mir, 31 Dec 2015Apple does not owe anyone, any amount of money. They have g... moreBy far the dumbest thing ever! Apple never did anything that anyone else couldn't have done if Apple didn't existed!
Apple simply exist by copying and fraudulent activities and nothing else!
world can run as beautifully without apple as it is running now!
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- Anonymous
- 9LB
- 31 Dec 2015
i feel karma is working since they like to sue they a** paying as well.. what goes around comes around
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- AnonD-123996
- SYK
- 31 Dec 2015
Applefanboy, 30 Dec 2015Whatever negative words you say even a million times about ... moreBecause mr. Cupertino only cares about the green stuff. And nothing else
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- AnonD-361638
- YQG
- 31 Dec 2015
mir, 31 Dec 2015Apple does not owe anyone, any amount of money. They have g... moreWe don't need to support any company in the world.They r for us.we r not for them.ok.
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- Anonymous
- 60x
- 31 Dec 2015
This is why apple is so expensive. 😁.
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- mir
- t7E
- 31 Dec 2015
Apple does not owe anyone, any amount of money. They have given great service to the tech world already by just simply existing. We are the ones who need to support apple.
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- Ultra Maniac
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- 31 Dec 2015
“one of the largest tax payers in the world and paid every euro of tax it owed wherever it did business.”
Then why are they agreeing to pay €318 mil??
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- Anonymous
- sHX
- 31 Dec 2015
Serial patent infringer, tech thief, and tax evader.
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- KaneJ
- ntJ
- 31 Dec 2015
Best news I read all year. shame the settlement wasn't any higher.
Cheap bastards well known for evading tax when possible...
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- Anonymous
- n41
- 31 Dec 2015
Er considering many people seem really angry at Apple, it's odd nobody bothers to take matters into their own hands in real life.
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- Milo
- tCQ
- 31 Dec 2015
Anonymous, 30 Dec 2015There's one word missing from your nice story.....apple.
A... moreAs much as we don't like Apple, they've already served their due punishment.
No need to get too vengeful - it won't make us any different from the criminals.
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- Milo
- tCQ
- 31 Dec 2015
As much as I'd like to see some accountability on Apple's part, it's gonna be hard. Apple is a massive corporation. It has a battalion of lawyers and accountants at it's disposal. They will find loopholes in countries' laws - and put some magical accounting to work. They will delay cases for as long as they can so they can evade longer. They will maximize as many strikes/fines as legally possible as usually corporate entities cannot be jailed, just fined. By the time they run out of loopholes to exploit, they would have gotten the maximum profit anyway.
Oh and you can't arrest a corporate entity for a crime. Only the employees directly involved in said crime. Maybe probation.
I don't like it, you don't like it. But that's how powerful the pursuit of profit is.
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- Anonymous
- RIE
- 31 Dec 2015
After the sueing of Apple making iphones slower, this story make it worst for Apple. Karma strikes back at ya. This is what you get for sueing Samsung too much. Other company feels like they need to start sueing Apple to give them a taste of their own medicine.
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- 39k
- 30 Dec 2015
wait was that agreement a fee that would get payed along with tax or did they actually pay just a third of what they owed,if its the latter that seems like a fraud
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- Anonymous
- 7s1
- 30 Dec 2015
“one of the largest tax payers in the world and paid every euro of tax it owed wherever it did business.”
gotta love their pr/lawyer spin.
when they say they are one of the "largest tax payers" in the world, due to english phrasing they can go back and say what they actually mean is they are one of the "largest payers of tax" in the world (eg. "god of war" vs "war god"). very different meaning to what they want people to actually think.
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- Bct
- 30 Dec 2015
lol, 30 Dec 2015What?search and read how they are trying everything to not pay taxes in Ireland and also involving US government to avoid paying taxes. dont just be a 1d10t