> Cook: [...] Apple has long supported international tax reform with the objectives of simplicity and clarity. > Gardner: That bit made me laugh out loud. When

> Cook: [...] Apple has long supported international tax reform with the objectives of simplicity and clarity. > Gardner: That bit made me laugh out loud. When the Senate’s permanent subcommittee was describing the elaborate tax-avoidance techniques used by Apple, they had to use flowcharts to explain it. The incredible complexity and creativity in the Apple tax-avoidance scheme is almost admirable. But to say that they are interested in simplicity and clarity is laughable. This is a failure of reading comprehension by Gardner, which could only be brought about by bias. Cook is not saying Apple's current arrangements are simple. He's saying that he would like to see reform so that using simple arrangements instead would not be detrimental to Apple.