[Trump20162020]

"The Commission’s move is unprecedented and it has serious, wide-reaching implications. It is effectively proposing to replace Irish tax laws with a view of what the Commission thinks the law should have been. This would strike a devastating blow to the sovereignty of EU member states over their own tax matters, and to the principle of certainty of law in Europe. Ireland has said they plan to appeal the Commission’s ruling and Apple will do the same. We are confident that the Commission’s order will be reversed. We now find ourselves in the unusual position of being ordered to retroactively pay additional taxes to a government that says we don't owe them any more than we've already paid."
-Apple CEO Tim Cook

Should Apple abandon proud EU-member Ireland for Britain?

[Paladin2]

0.005% is WAY better than paying muzzies to come wreck your country.

[Rebel2016]

The Eurocrats want to tax the deep pockets to support their beloved Afro-Islamic rapefugees they have invited into Europe. Guess what, no one would give a shxt to a dying culture.

[DoughtyOne]

E. U.  PU


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[pangaea6]

Go Brexit! Take back your country and your laws!

[aquila48]

The European Commission aka, the Politbureau...

Can’t say I feel real sorry for Timmy - given that these are the people he supports that are screwing him from behind.

[DrPretorius]

I feel zero sympathy for the queer geeks at Apple. They consistently force their degenerate and repressive political agenda on everyone in the US by financing their proxies, the Marxocrats, then they go abroad to prop up tyrannical regimes, like China and the Eurozone. Just like Gates suffered with governmental targeting of Microsoft, even as he ignorantly supported his bestest buddy, Buffett, the big government shill, its simple justice to see the pervert Cook and his minions take in the shorts, since they deserve every sick thing to come their way.

[Crucial]

The EU was hit hard by Britain leaving so they have to suck another warm body dry.

[RegulatorCountry]

Apple’s presence in Ireland was predicated upon the incentives offered. For the EU to come in after the fact and say, no, that was not legal over a decade later and attempt to charge Apple with billions in back taxes plus interest, based upon some taxation scheme than was never applied and never considered, is wrong. I would not be surprised to see Apple leave Ireland, if this is allowed to stand.