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I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
I personally find it astonishing that Apple can even be bothered to evade tax when the rate is 12.5% - if the government offered me a rate of 12.5% I would be whistling a jonty tune as I looked for my cheque book
Needless to say the adverse press will not stop the iSheep from wanting the latest slave labour produced iThing.
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As long as they are in the EU and have a lower tax rate than other EU countries they can clean up. Luxembourg do a lot of similar stuff as well.
For the EU to work, there needs to be much greater harmonisation and all nations in the EU need to have the same tax rates. It would end up with much higher tax rates like a lot of continental EU countries and everything would be completely uncompetitive on a world scale. This is why we are better off out.
As I understand it, one other theoretical advantage of Brexit is that Apple (and other companies) will have to set up some kind of UK office for UK sales (which will pay UK tax) rather than channel it all through Ireland to avoid tax. Of course they will try to use other dodges to avoid UK tax - one obvious one that occurs is to claim that they make no profit on UK operations by selling their stuff to the UK branch at an inflated rate so it's the "manufacturing" branch of Apple that makes all the profits.
The quality of Starbucks' coffee is certainly a disgrace
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