Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“You are headstrung in talking about a portion that Apple pays the right US tax whilst saying they are right to leave the more dodgy money off-shore.
All you do is try to force quite leading or stupid questions that no one has an interest in answering but you.
kidspud is sort of the same.
That is not debating and it solves nothing. I'm happy to have your opinion. Twisted questions for meaningless point scoring does little for debate.
Apple and Google currently have their ill gotten gains offshore and are partly causing the economic meltdown.
There is no easy solution but they morally owe the UK billions in tax. How we and other countries solve this without even further economic meltdown is certainly beyond my comprehension.”
If the subject is "the US Senate's questioning of Apple about their tax", on exactly what planet are these questions twisted, leading or meaningless:
What exactly it is that US companies are required to do by US tax law?
What are Apple doing that the US Senate thinks they should not be doing?
As far as I can tell, they are the two most straightforward, direct and relevant questions that could possibly be asked.
Actually, I suppose they could be reworded as:
1. What
should Apple be doing?
2. What
are Apple doing?
Its hilarious that I've taken the time to post what I have, and in return you have posted some of the frankly nonsense in reply, and you're accusing me of twisting things and being meaningless!
You mention owing the UK money - I don't think anyone would disagree that large companies, including Apple, are paying less UK corporation tax than they should be.
But that's not what the US Senate investigation is about.
You're earlier post about US companies being required by US law to pay a total of 35% tax was, I'm pretty sure, wrong.
Could you clarify:
Are you saying that if Apple paid less to HMRC than they should have, that the IRS then becomes entitled to any shortfall?
If that was the case, I'd be interested to know why the IRS become entitled to that money rather than HMRC.