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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApple Avoided Billions in Taxes, Congressional Panel Says
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
Published: May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON Even as Apple became the nations most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and surprised experts, a Congressional investigation has found.
Some of these subsidiaries had no employees and were largely run by top officials from the companys headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., according to Congressional investigators. But by officially locating them in places like Ireland, Apple was able to, in effect, make them stateless exempt from taxes, record-keeping laws and the need for the subsidiaries to even file tax returns anywhere in the world.
In 2011, for example, one subsidiary paid Ireland just one-twentieth of 1 percent in taxes on $22 billion on pretax earnings from various operations; another did not file a corporate tax return anywhere and has paid almost nothing on $30 billion in profits since 2009.
Apple wasnt satisfied with shifting its profits to a low-tax offshore tax haven, said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat. Apple sought the holy grail of tax avoidance. It has created offshore entities holding tens of billions of dollars while claiming to be tax resident nowhere.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/apple-avoided-billions-in-taxes-congressional-panel-says.html?_r=0
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Apple Avoided Billions in Taxes, Congressional Panel Says (Original Post)
n2doc
May 2013
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Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)1. Paging onehandle...nt
onehandle
(51,122 posts)2. No laws broken. Congress has themselves to blame. Apple pays more corporate taxes than anyone.
And they should pay more.
Again, blame Congress.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)3. Too bad Monsanto doesn't make shiny expensive toys for you to play with
they could use someone like you on DU.
frylock
(34,825 posts)4. bleep blorp