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Maybe they should have asked the EU? If a deal looks to be good to be true it might not be true. If you buy a stolen car from some shaddy guy for much less then
by tobltobs 10y ago
Maybe they should have asked the EU? If a deal looks to be good to be true it might not be true. If you buy a stolen car from some shaddy guy for much less then it is actual worth it is also your fault.
- sjwright 10y agoDid you get the okay from Obama and the Supreme Court when you purchased that smartphone from South Korea? I heard maybe they'll decide next year to retrospectively ban all goods from the peninsula. Yes, what you said is that ridiculous.
- tobltobs 10y ago[The following reply doesn't make any sense anymore as the parent did retroactively change his reply.] It depends who do you mean with everyone? In this case the only party which should have been asked would have been the EU, which doesn't sound mad at all in my opinion.
- CPLX 10y agoYour analogy fails as it's an irrelevant reference, we're talking about taxes here, not every possible law that could ever exist. If you want to get an opinion from the US Federal Government on how to account for a transaction for tax purposes there is in fact a procedure for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_letter_ruling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_letter_ruling One in the business of importing phones from another country who has questions about competing taxation and tariff rules has many options for getting guidance on the implications of their accounting. And nothing that happened in this matter was shocking or surprising to Apple. They have elaborate tax avoidance schemes. For example, they didn't like trip and fall and land on a convoluted Double Irish arrangement by accident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement