State aid can take many forms: direct funding, free estate, lower taxes, no taxes.
Competion law is known, but probably tax lawyers and CFOs are not as well educated as competition lawyers in this area.
In any case: how can a sophisticated business like Apple even only thinking that it could pay just 0,0005% of tax on profits? Isn't this naive?
All of the Ireland citizens should be able to allocate 90% of their income to a separate head office in the same country, which head office does not pay taxes. Why only Apple and not us?
Metrognome - 8 years ago
Wholly inappropriate wording for a poll question. A leading question with plenty of weasel words.
Thing is, of course they should claw back the money. Ireland has been through a very harsh period of cuts and austerity and this will go some way to addressing the imbalance.
Lone protester - 8 years ago
Yes, for two reasons: first, because Ireland's tax scheme is the only reason big tech companies moved to Europe (hence are fleeceable); and second, as a parting gift for Ireland, which will now start to lose all those foreign businesses that have powered the "Celtic Tiger" for a generation. Or, to put it slightly differently, in any con job, you always pay off the lure.
State aid can take many forms: direct funding, free estate, lower taxes, no taxes.
Competion law is known, but probably tax lawyers and CFOs are not as well educated as competition lawyers in this area.
In any case: how can a sophisticated business like Apple even only thinking that it could pay just 0,0005% of tax on profits? Isn't this naive?
All of the Ireland citizens should be able to allocate 90% of their income to a separate head office in the same country, which head office does not pay taxes. Why only Apple and not us?
Wholly inappropriate wording for a poll question. A leading question with plenty of weasel words.
Thing is, of course they should claw back the money. Ireland has been through a very harsh period of cuts and austerity and this will go some way to addressing the imbalance.
Yes, for two reasons: first, because Ireland's tax scheme is the only reason big tech companies moved to Europe (hence are fleeceable); and second, as a parting gift for Ireland, which will now start to lose all those foreign businesses that have powered the "Celtic Tiger" for a generation. Or, to put it slightly differently, in any con job, you always pay off the lure.