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Because other companies pay about 20%.

If you want to completely reform our taxation system, sure, whatever. But that doesn't impact Apple's liability under the current one.




Ireland's official corporate tax rate is only 12.5% on trading profits[1] anyway, which is one of the lower rates in the EU, not 20%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe


Fair point!




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