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If you make a deal with a government to pay 0.005% taxes where all other corporations in the same country pays 12.5%, you might want to suspect that something is wrong. Even if you are not paying bribes, it does not pass the smell test.



It passes the "business at scale" test.

How much do you pay when you buy an iPhone?

How much do you think a business that gives iPhones to its employees pays per iPhone?

If they pay half of what you pay, per phone, is it unfair?

Sure. maybe there's a 50% spread between those price points.

But they still pay orders of magnitude more money to Apple than you do.

.00005% of $big_pile_of_money is a better deal to Ireland than 10% of $0, because Apple HQ'd elsewhere.




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