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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on August 30, 2016, 09:26:31 AM
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Star Member kentuck (76,413 posts)
Is it time for Apple to return to America?
Unable to copy and paste but link should work. Amounts of taxes owed are stupendous !
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/apple-ireland-taxes_us_57c55fcee4b0664f13ca5147?section=&
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028132336
Kentuck needs more free shit.
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Not going to happen, even Jobs told Obozo he couldn't afford to make the shit here and it was out of the question. Operations, no matter how hard Apple gets hit on the Ireland deal, it's still gonna be cheaper to stay offshore with our tax structure.
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Re the $$ Apple keeps outside of the US, no US taxes are owed on it unless and until Apple brought it "into" the US. The true problem in this situation is that US tax laws make it foolish - verging on insane - for large US companies to bring foreign earnings into the US.
Apple has glorified screwdriver plants in Ireland and in Elk Grove, CA. Computers built to a standard configuration come in the door and go by one of two routes back out the door. Most (?) go right back out again, as this is the standard configuration being sold. The rest have drives changed or added, to match a new or special-ordered configuration, and then are shipped. The people who do the reconfiguring work are contractors, not Apple employees. They are called in for a few weeks, to configure a batch, and then are let go until the next batch. Rinse and repeat. That was the way it was in ~2000, when I was in the Elk Grove plant occasionally, doing tech support for one of Apple's vendors.
I'd agree that this sucks for some one wanting a full-time career-job. But what would be a realistic alternative mode of operation? Building iMacs and MacBooks in the States? The price Apple would have to charge would be so high that even most Apple-philes couldn't/wouldn't buy them. Hire fewer people for the configuring, and do the work continually and a little more slowly? Still results in higher prices, and leaves Apple less responsive to changes in demand. This, too, is a situation at least partly driven by government - high tax rates, high cost of living due to no-growth housing policies, the cost of ever-changing enviro-regs, and more.
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The eu, ;articular.y Ireland, needs apple way more than apple needs the eu or ireland.
I hate the homo sjw that now is running apple into the ground but the eu ministers are even more stupid and short sighted.
However, I just bought some apple September puts.