Interestingly, it looks like Tim Cook is directly challenging the 0.005% tax rate claim that the EU commission made: "They just picked a number from I don'

Interestingly, it looks like Tim Cook is directly challenging the 0.005% tax rate claim that the EU commission made: "They just picked a number from I don't know where. In the year that the Commission says we paid that tax figure, we actually paid $400m. We believe that makes us the highest taxpayer in Ireland that year." ... Cook also said the 0.005pc tax rate it is accused of paying the Commission is a “false number”. “I have no idea where the number came from. Here is the truth, in that year we paid $400m to Ireland and that was based on the statutory rate of 12.5pc.” http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/no-one-did-anything-wrong-here-and-ireland-is-being-picked-on-it-is-total-political-crap-35012145.html http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/no-one-did-anything...