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I can't believe Apple is wilfully not paying property taxes on their headquarters! That's quite illegal, and I'm sure... ...oh, they are paying their property
by Lazare 11y ago
I can't believe Apple is wilfully not paying property taxes on their headquarters! That's quite illegal, and I'm sure...
...oh, they are paying their property taxes? I see. So which taxes, precisely, are they not paying the Cupertino government?
Oh, there aren't any taxes, but you sort of wish someone with the authority to do so would pass a law making new taxes, but they won't, so you're mad at...Apple?
'k.
- golergka 11y agoHe isn't trying to make new taxes exactly, he just wants his $100 million. Apple's so big, they shouldn't mind parting with $100 mil for no good reason, right? It's not like they have responsibilities to shareholders or something.
- twinkletwinkle 11y agoYou must not get it: they have money and he doesn't. They ought to give him the money. This is a weird shill piece, why bother printing it?
- slantaclaus 11y agoThey're called impact fees, and the dumb shmuck should have created laws to levy them beforehand
- gumby 11y agoHe tried and failed, which makes his position even more absurd, regardless of what you think of the merits of his case.
- slantaclaus 10y agoIf I remember correctly, that was a special assessment tax for the particular development in question which Jobs ripped to shreds by threatening to move Apple's operations elsewhere in the valley. What they would have had to have done was to create a catch-all impact fee law to apply to all developments based on the number of new traffic they would create. This would probably be bad for business though.