Apple is also one of the most notorious tax avoiders in world history. This is quite a stretch. Apple's effective tax rate is somewhere near 24-26%, which is f

Apple is also one of the most notorious tax avoiders in world history. This is quite a stretch. Apple's effective tax rate is somewhere near 24-26%, which is far above many of its peers. However when the tax conversation comes up, every level and every jurisdiction has self-serving ideas about how much of that tax should be payable to them. e.g. "Apple made $X worldwide, therefore they owe Cupertino/California/United States N% of $X", etc.