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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Aug 30, 2016 12:04:48 GMT
Furious Apple threatens EU with job losses after £11bn tax ruling FURIOUS tech giant Apple has issued a veiled threat to pull jobs and investment from Europe after the EU ordered it to pay £11 BILLION in backdated taxes. In a scathing attack today chiefs at the world's richest company accused Brussels bureaucrats of "rewriting history" and hinted that 22,000 jobs and billions of pounds of investment in the continent is now on the line. This morning EU chiefs ordered Ireland to claw back billions of pounds in unpaid tax over two decades after ruling that a series of sweetheart deals with Apple were illegal. Read more>>>>> UNUSUAL FOR ALL THE BIG TECH COMPANIES? nope MICROSOFT>>>>> GOOGLE>>>>>Facebook, Starbucks et al are all at it.
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Post by Lighthouse on Aug 31, 2016 8:39:30 GMT
The United States Treasury has criticised the European Union’s decision to make Apple pay 13 billion dollars in back taxes. The Treasury says that such tax investigations are “unfair” and undermined the tax rules of individual states. Meanwhile the White House says that the ruling could affect US tax payers. A spokesman said that if Apple was forced to pay the tax it might offset the amount against tax due in the United States,which would be unfair for US tax payers. On Tuesday the European Commission ruled that the government of the Republic of Ireland had enabled Apple to pay substantially less tax than other companies. Both Ireland and Apple say that they disagree with the penalty and will appeal.
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Post by brian on Aug 31, 2016 21:05:53 GMT
That amount is equivalent to Ireland's total annual health budget, but represents just 27% of Apple's profits.
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Post by Lighthouse on Aug 31, 2016 22:44:36 GMT
A Guinness a day is good for your health, an Apple a day may keep the doctor away, but will promote many visits to the dentist.
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Post by brian on Sept 1, 2016 6:55:24 GMT
No, an Apple a day would be too expensive for me.
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Sept 1, 2016 12:39:25 GMT
Apple is all pear shaped!
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Post by Lighthouse on Sept 1, 2016 14:14:08 GMT
Those big green ones make nice Pies (unfortunately they taste like Raspberry)
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Post by brian on Sept 1, 2016 18:41:22 GMT
Our big green ones make nice pies, but they don't taste of raspberry.
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Post by Lighthouse on Sept 1, 2016 19:29:42 GMT
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Post by raphoenix on Sept 11, 2016 12:45:15 GMT
This post is probably in the wrong forum section but will give it a go anyway. Has any member pre-ordered a new iPhone 7 yet ?
I tried but the UNLOCKED Version of the 7 has no shipping date so am stuck with my old 6S model for a while.
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Sept 11, 2016 13:01:53 GMT
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