[Beave Meister]

Tax Avoidance = Legal. Tax Evasion = Not Legal. Good for Apple. Our government would just spend it on Iran for hostages. If our Corporate Taxes weren't the highest in the world, they'd probably keep all their business here in the States. Maybe some day our Congress critters will figure it out. I doubt it.

[BunnySlippers]

Good!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Show me a person who doesn’t do everything possible to avoid paying more taxes than they have to and I’ll show you a blithering, drooling, retarded moron.

[plain talk]

You said “not legal”. I believe you meant “not illegal”, right?

[AFreeBird]

Good for Apple. Makes Trump’s 900M pale in comparison.

If congress wasn’t so damn greedy, that money could be repatriated and putting people to work.

[soycd]

It ain’t news to us working stiffs that pay for the filth sneaking into America and supporting welfare for lazy human waste.

And us that pay for the pinched off welfare cases don’t like it any better.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Another reason why Apple sucks.

[fruser1]

You tend to find the most “tax avoidance” in countries run by tax gouging tyrants.

A part of the story you will never hear about from the commie press.

[txrefugee]

Apple does not discriminate. It screws everyone equally...and the Millennials love it.

[stayathomemom]

How expensive would my phone have been otherwise?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Absolutely LEGAL and SMART.

The best was legal bedwetting.

We have the highest corporate tax rates in the US. They need to be lowered.

[Swordmaker]

"Apple has been named as the biggest corporate tax avoider in the United States after booking $218.55 billion (£171.6 billion) of profit offshore last year." Good Grief, the economic ignorance is STRONG in this one. Apple did not "book" $218.55 Billion of "profit off shore" last year. Far from it. This reporter does not have the beginning of a clue about business, economics, or practically anything about Finance.

In 2015, Apple's WORLD WIDE REVENUE was $234 billion. The Net PROFIT after taxes— Apple's Effective Tax Rate in 2015 was 26.4%—was only $53.3 BILLION! Approximately 40% of that was earned in the United States and stayed here. Approximately 60% was earned overseas and is banked there, but is taxed HERE in the United States, but will be taxed even more at the rate of 35% if brought home to be invested in the United States!

This year, the ESTIMATED WORLD WIDE REVENUE (sales)—not what has been falsely called profits by the idiot author of this article—is a lower $218 Billion who thinks that ALL of the profits should be TAXED AWAY BY SOMEONE as he claims Apple is evading $65 Billion in taxes by nefariously keeping the money off shore, hidden away from the tax collectors" . . . but the margins are a bit lower this year so since last year, after deducting all the expenses of making all the products, advertising them and paying their employees, fees, regulatory costs, etc., Apple's NET PROFIT was only $53.3 billion, (that's the part that is taxable), the NET PROFIT will also be lower this year, but this idiot thinks that somehow Apple should somehow squeeze $65 billion out of a smaller NET PROFIT this year (my guess is around $50 billion).

However the split between the US and Off-Shore will remain about the same. . . and the American profits will remain in the US and invested HERE, not be sent off-shore. Apple wants to bring the money it has off-shore home, but it can't without being taxed exhorbitantly on money it has already earned and is, essentially Apple's savings. > — PING!

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[beethovenfan]

If their arrangements are legal, good for them. Same goes for Trump.