EU orders Ireland to claw back £11 Billion pissing off Ireland and the US.
Hahahaha!
I hope they tear each other to bits.
*waves*
Hey Obama, we still back of the queue? :)
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Hahahaha!
I hope they tear each other to bits.
*waves*
Hey Obama, we still back of the queue? :)
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"Apple said the decision would be harmful for jobs."
...if he wasn't already dead.
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...if he wasn't already dead.
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Finance minister, Michael Noonan going for the title of "most hated man in Ireland" there
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picked the wrong side
"The decision leaves me with no choice but to seek cabinet approval to appeal. This is necessary to defend the integrity of our tax system; to provide tax certainty to business; and to challenge the encroachment of EU state aid rules into the sovereign member state competence of taxation."
If the rate of taxation is 12.5% of profits and you are collecting 0.005% from Apple. I'd be worried about your competence in collecting taxation.
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"The decision leaves me with no choice but to seek cabinet approval to appeal. This is necessary to defend the integrity of our tax system; to provide tax certainty to business; and to challenge the encroachment of EU state aid rules into the sovereign member state competence of taxation."
If the rate of taxation is 12.5% of profits and you are collecting 0.005% from Apple. I'd be worried about your competence in collecting taxation.
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Thing is Irelands been doing this with apple for a long time so it must be in their favour to do so.
I mean they appealing against collecting tax equal to their health spending.
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I mean they appealing against collecting tax equal to their health spending.
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For the first time since joining the EU
they are about to become a net contributor rather than a net beneficiary of the EU, this is in large part due to their fairly longstanding favourable business tax policies aiding economic recovery.
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they are about to become a net contributor rather than a net beneficiary of the EU, this is in large part due to their fairly longstanding favourable business tax policies aiding economic recovery.
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Well we cant have that!
How will they remain politically loyal to the project if they're not financially dependent?
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How will they remain politically loyal to the project if they're not financially dependent?
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Ireland needs jobs and job security as a priority
which is why it offers low levels of corporate taxation to begin with. Then negotiators from Apple walk into the Irish equivalent of HMRC and say: "Look we're providing loads of jobs here if you don't sort us out a bit we're moving to Luxembourg"
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which is why it offers low levels of corporate taxation to begin with. Then negotiators from Apple walk into the Irish equivalent of HMRC and say: "Look we're providing loads of jobs here if you don't sort us out a bit we're moving to Luxembourg"
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Nearly 6000 jobs vs a £11 billion pound lump sum and keeping the EU happy...
Tough call.
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Tough call.
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I like that 'tax certainty' bit
Imagine a tax system where corporations can't be 100% certain that they're going to pay fuck all. Those poor loves, they must be worried sick
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Imagine a tax system where corporations can't be 100% certain that they're going to pay fuck all. Those poor loves, they must be worried sick
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I know, the poor little sausages, rather than give the mid year dividend a dent
they'd rather threaten the livelihoods of hundreds of families. What a marvellous company to work for.
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they'd rather threaten the livelihoods of hundreds of families. What a marvellous company to work for.
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