Apple is not based in Ireland. Apples European business is based in Ireland. The idea that the US government is owed taxes for transactions that happen in oth

Apple is not based in Ireland. Apples European business is based in Ireland. The idea that the US government is owed taxes for transactions that happen in other countries is kind of absurd. What if the British declared that you owe them income taxes (after all, america was a british colony, they could consider us subjects)? You'd see that as absurd, yet Britian has more claim on US citizen income taxes than the US has on a chinese product being sold in europe.