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The U.S. has a very strange corporate tax system. Why should Apple have to pay U.S. taxes on the profits they make selling in Germany a phone made of Korean com
by twoodfin 11y ago
The U.S. has a very strange corporate tax system. Why should Apple have to pay U.S. taxes on the profits they make selling in Germany a phone made of Korean components in a Chinese factory? That's above and beyond whatever taxes they're paying in the supplier nations and in Germany itself, which I assume are not insignificant.
- anonymousDan 11y agoAs long as they pay taxes on that profit somewhere I don't care. At the moment they don't pay them anywhere, instead telling the Germans that the profits were made by the US part of the company and so can't be taxed there, and then using the US's daft repatriation laws to avoid paying US taxes by just leaving the profits offshore.
- cm3 11y agoUsually states want to see taxes for stuff bought by people on their premises, and this is where Google and co are escaping, but this is all a little unclear with e-commerce and all.