Apple keeps most of it cash overseas and pays no taxes on it. To say Apple is a good American citizen fails to show the highly complex scam it runs with using foreign corporations to keep money out of the US.
Apple paid $14b but has over $180b in cash overseas.
It’s the duty of all citizens and all companies to reduce their taxes to the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM LEVEL as allowed by law. I would say that’s an OBLIGATION to do so, and NOT pay the most taxes possible. Here at Free Republic we’re about REDUCING taxes! ... :-) ...
But even so with Apple reducing taxes to the minimum possible by law, they are still paying the SECOND HIGHEST LEVEL of taxes of any company!
Not true. Apple has about $120 Billion overseas and about $60 Billion in the US. Never-the-less, that fact is irrelevant. All of those funds, no matter where they are located, have had the relevant income taxes paid on them in the jurisdictions in which the income was earned. Sorry that you don't like following the law as written.