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Quicky , (edited )

It sounds so bizarre that Ireland has been fighting in court to avoid having to receive €13bn from Apple.

jagermo ,

Because its main export was/is being a tax haven inside the EU.

ricdeh , (edited )
@ricdeh@lemmy.world avatar

Yep. They tried desperately to build up an IT economy and for that wanted to appease all the tech companies.

Quicky ,

Yeah I get that, and that’ll be because of the long term financial benefits of enticing the companies there. But still…€13bn is a mad figure.

CluckN ,

With 13 billion I could easily bribe every politician in the world to eradicate daylight savings.

turkalino ,
@turkalino@lemmy.yachts avatar

Definitely, but maintaining their status as a tax haven is more important I guess

tigerjerusalem ,

Jesus Fucking Christ, this fucking company can pay 13 billion and it’s still not do a dent on their TRILLION dollars value. Imagine all that society could benefit if those fucking assholes just paid their share, instead of us having to hear how green and socially conscious these bastards are.

Tech companies are the most disgusting corporations in their sheer greed, right up there with oil corps.

itsathursday ,

Can I interest you in an iPhone 16? It’s the 16th generation of their pocket depressions rectangle and now costs more than it did last time.

kippinitreal ,

They greedy af. They’ve lobbied (bribed?) to keep the corp taxes as low as possible. Then they go Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich and NOT pay the low taxes anyways. If we were to tax them appropriately then it’d be a helluva lot more than 13b imo

WhatAmLemmy , (edited )

95% of corporations and 100% of multinationals are greedy parasites who only virtue signal when it’s profitable (mainstream) to do so.

Those that had any real virtue have been destroyed or acquired by the parasites.

Bezier ,
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

That’s a lot of money they have stolen there.

namingthingsiseasy ,

The biggest theft in history, even.

Why is nobody talking about this?? Oh yeah, because it’s okay when our planetary overlords do it. Let’s imprison some more homeless people for stealing bread instead!

Bezier ,
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

I guess it’s just normalized.

namingthingsiseasy ,

Great to see, but are there punitive damages too, or even charges for interest? Because if not, then they’ll just keep trying to pull stunts like this off again and again.

(My guess is that there isn’t because it involes a deal with Ireland, but I would love to be proven wrong.)

khannie ,
@khannie@lemmy.world avatar

Well I am delighted. €13.1B + the 1.2 in interest represents what will be a bump of 16% of total tax revenue compared to 2023 (€88B total). There are lots of things that money can be used for.

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