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1 hour ago, evildictait​or wrote

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Except that AOI isn't an irish company. It has zero employees; it has no offices; all of it's money is in US banks

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Companies have stockholders. I'm pretty sure companies don't have to have employees, nor offices, nor money to be the entity. If Ireland recognized the incorporation of AOI then AOI is a company of Ireland.  Therefore jurisdiction lies with Ireland.

The rest of your point is valid and I'd guess that was the purpose for creating AOI from the start. The tone though of the US government brow-beating Apple rather than get competitive is where we part ways.

@evildictaitor: "AOI was incorporated in Ireland in 1980." This means AOI falls under the jurisdiction of Ireland. Sounds like Ireland's move. I guess the US government can bluster but they can't usurp another country's autonomy. Well they could ... but that usually involves missiles. This leaves the US leverage options to some sort of action upon import of goods I'd imagine.

9 hours ago, dahat wrote

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Why bother bringing the funds into the US and paying high taxes on it... when you can buy or build a factory or three overseas (or other large acquisitions) or even your own country and do so without paying many a tax in your country of origin?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

Unfortunately it isn't very defensible.

From what I've heard so far it sounds like simple competitive taxing to me.  If one jurisdiction charges 10% and another charges 2% then work out of the one with 2% to keep costs low.

Those senators need to realize that they are competing with other taxing authorities and they need to get competitive.

@kettch: Spandex ALERT! AVERT! AVERT!

@Kental2: Atlanta traffic ROCKS! You don't need caffeine in the morning when you have formula one racing six lanes wide and no granny lane.

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@Charles: My suggestion would be to give the original poster up to a month beyond the date of the latest post. A flat simple cutoff.

@Charles: This didn't answer the question of whether it was rude.  So I'm marking your response "Marked as ANSWER".

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