Not at all - there's some clever wording at play here. Apple may well be the "largest" taxpayer in the world. But that doesn't require that they are the singula

Not at all - there's some clever wording at play here. Apple may well be the "largest" taxpayer in the world. But that doesn't require that they are the singular entity paying the largest total sum of taxes. It's pretty common to measure the size of corporations by market value - Apple is pretty much the "largest" corporation by that measurement, and since they do pay some taxes (a laughable amount, but it nevertheless wins them this checkmark) they technically are a taxpayer, too.