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[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

What has the EU ever done for us?

A lot.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 week ago

Apple’s tax rate in Ireland fell to 0.005% in 2014 from 0.05% in 2011.

[-] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

“Ireland does not give preferential tax treatment to any companies or taxpayers,” stated a spokesperson from the Irish Ministry of Finances.

I wish the media would eviscerate these people like they used to.

[-] ogeist@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago
[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

So you're saying they should just buy a country and continue to not pay taxes?

[-] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 12 points 1 week ago

Honestly, don't give them ideas...

If a business quite literally controls a country we are fucked.

[-] monkeyman69@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 1 week ago

Let me introduce you to the United States of America..

[-] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 1 week ago

South Korea

[-] Virkkunen@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

You mean, like the USA?

[-] Skates@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago

They're* literally fucked.

It's a lot harder to pass laws that discriminate vs exactly one business, than it is to sanction one particular country. With shell corporations, hiding accounts etc, there's no way you can make a law that says "apple has to do X". But you can pass sanctions against, eg: Russia.

First corpo to buy a country is gonna quickly find out politics is harder than business, and greasing politicians' pockets is harder when you have literally hundreds of countries you're negotiating with.

Also, armies. Try getting on the wrong side of country x, might get yourself a nice invasion pretty soon.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

GDP isn't the same as how much a country is worth

[-] n3cr0@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Sounds fair and good for the environment (according to Apple's marketing logic) 👍

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