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See but they do pay their taxes. They just use loopholes to pay less taxes.
by fredoliveira 11y ago
See but they do pay their taxes. They just use loopholes to pay less taxes.
- Frondo 11y agoLet me ask you then, do you think it's right that the tax burden is on those locally-run frozen yogurt places, over the extremely well-off multinationals like Apple? Is that the way you want to see the world run?
- sigzero 11y agoI don't think he is saying that at all. Of course Apple is going to use every loophole they find. They are a business and that business is making money. The only way to fix it is to remove the loopholes.
- coldtea 11y ago>The only way to fix it is to remove the loopholes. Or you know, to have the people running the business have a sense of ethics.
- Frondo 11y agoWell, yeah. Like, if your company is headquartered in Cupertino, maybe then act like it when tax time comes and pay your US and California taxes. Setting up a nesting doll stack of shell corporations to dodge all that is, right now, legal, but is that the world I'd want to have a hand in building? Nope.
- hugh4 11y agoEthically your responsibility is to the shareholders who have given you their money to invest, not to some random government. The governments of the world aren't doing a good enough job with the money I'm already giving them for me to start thinking about donating more.
- fredoliveira 11y agoOf course I don't think it's right. I was only making the point of what they do is not skip paying taxes, but effectively trick the financial system into paying as little as they can.
- lomnakkus 11y agoThat's basically a distinction without meaning. The whole reason for taxes is that it helps the collective -- sometimes at the expense of the individual.