Apple owes Ireland 13 billion in tax

>Apple owes Ireland 13 billion in tax.
>Irish government wants to sweep it under the carpet and pretend it does no exist.
>Eu is going to force Ireland to take the 13 billion
>Apple and other tech companies are going to get pissed and leave
>Thousands of jobs will be lost
>Ireland booming computer industry is going to die
>last year of comp sci in uni
Explain to me why the fucking EU is a good idea? They are going to kill us.

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Maybe you'll leave.

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Doubt it, we love the EU cock. That 13 billion is going to all the dole warrior and wasters in the country.

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you know what to do lad

Same position as you, lad.

The EU bailed you out so don't pretend to enjoy all the advantagesmof EU and none of the responsabilities.

Whats the point of dragging us out of the hole just to send us back into it.
That 13 billion will benefit all those pakis the EU forces us t0 take.

>the EU bailed you out
That was Britain lad

EU is retarded imo

I like those Syrian firecrackers.

Come back potato man.

I'm just sorry that our companies are so fucking greedy, that an absurdly low tax rate wasn't good enough for them, so they had to run it in a way that resulted in actually getting huge tax returns...now they have the nerve to say they'll fight the suit.

Fucking despicable.

Hold me :(

It is fucking retarded it hurts the EU in the long run, greedy fucks are hoping they will move to their countries when they will probably just move to the UK.
Why is America pissed though? I thought the US hated our dodgey tax policy for tech companies.

I actually might have to emigrate to Britain.
Ah well atleast I wont get shafted by Amazon's shipping anymore.

user your country's companies an dodge all the tax they want because we don't give a fuck as long as they keep coming and giving us jobs.

See ya in London lad.

Just play fair and stop stealing taxes from other euro countries just to help America.

Everything will be ok southbro
Why not come up here instead?

>EU is going to force Ireland to take the 13 billion
Kek no it isn't. The US is backing us and we're confident the EU is on shaky legal ground, most countries in Europe are already against the EU - you think they're going to let the EU dictate our tax laws to us when they legally can't?

"bailed us out"
They gave us a fucking loan at above what it cost them to borrow it, they made money off of us and the only reason we were in that fucking hole in the first place is because those cunts fucking put us there to save their own economies.

We could've told their banks to fuck off and let their economies implode.

>Ireland booming computer industry
boombing because low taxes, now it's bombing heh

>Why is America pissed though? I thought the US hated our dodgey tax policy for tech companies.
Some lobbyist is probably paying them to be pissed

>Why is America pissed though? I thought the US hated our dodgey tax policy for tech companies.
Because they think the EU is targeting American firms to drive them out of the market, and most of the loopholes were on America's end of our tax agreements.

>Why not come up here instead?
All the tech companies will probably move to London and no offence I am not too fond of northern Ireland, I am a timid little fag who finds it scary.

>Why not come up here instead?
You're fine, thanks.

I was looking forward to not leaving the country.

because all of those companies would have never moved in Ireland if it wasn't for it being part of the EU ?

You can't just offer a tax heaven at the doors of the EU. 13 billions is pocket change for Apple. Stop sucking Corporate dick you tax-evasion enabler

Without the loss in tax evasion we could pay almost all of our debts in 1 year

I saved this .gif a couple months back, can't even remember where from. I never had any occasion to use it until this apple tax deal and now it's the most perfect .gif ever

Fuck off Algerian scum.

Why'd you join an economic union if you want to be a tax haven?

I should have became a vet.

Because look at Ireland circa 70s, and compare with today.

>dodge all the tax they want because we don't give a fuck as long as they keep coming and giving us jobs.
It isn't ethical. They can give you jobs, AND pay their taxes, like fucking adults.

Ireland would literally crumble without the EU

Tax-evader enabler detected
Seriously, either leave the EU and play tax-heaven or be in the EU and don't leech off the profits of big companies.
And I'm NOT an Algerian you bully. Just find one real argument of fiscal evasion.

You're like a whore being saved from the streets, but still bitching that you want to have your ass fuck for pocket money.

True.

Well, at least you can easily emigrate now before shit goes south.

That money goes directly to bondholders repayments. This whole thing is a fuck you from the EU to Ireland's corporation tax rate, which incidentally has nothing to do with them. They'll lose the appeal in court and rightly so. Best thing Britain ever did was leaving the EU.

or they can fuck off to the next tax heaven and give you no jobs
states compete with each other to attract wealth as much as companies do

>They can give you jobs, AND pay their taxes, like fucking adults
Why would they do that when they already farm off their jobs to Poland because the wages are cheaper, or Britain because the Brits are a bigger tax haven than us?

Fuck off, we're doing what we need to in order to survive and thrive. You cunts are capitalists, so don't poxy cry when we act like capitalists.

it's sad that Irish people are kicking up a fuss about the eu forcing them to take 11bn off Apple than when they forced them to bail out private companies

Don't leave me alone with the orangemen lads
They're not nice people

Look on the bright side, at least you're not Greece

How much of a corporate dicksucking cuck can you be?
I thought the Irish were not anglo.

Britain is not leaving (yet). And seriously I want them to, same want a real Frexit. Luxembourg leeching off corporate money is pissing me off.

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t. poor gypsy
The only reason your cousins have a life of begging on the streets here is because of our unscrupulous business nature.

Nah, were still an agricultural country, would just slow down economic growth a little

Sorry m8, we're changing over here. Lots of Murricans don't care for capitalism anymore.

>don't leech off the profits of big companies
Think about what you're typing frog.

Yet.

Irish people are only happy when they have a job to pay for alcohol.
Ill not go back to the bog, you cannot make me.

Exactly.

>you can easily emigrate now
I really don't want to do that. I honestly love the country to bits.

n-no but it's not fair muh porky please accept my utopian ideas that never have and never will work in the real world

>Lots of Murricans don't care for capitalism anymore.
So then close your fucking tax loopholes and stop blaming us for your incompetence.

Well my grammar might be a bit unclear but you got the point. Apple makes a monumental profit in France and don't pay shit. And they are far from alone.

But the lots of murricans aren't usually the owners of multinational companies. That's kind of the reason why so many companies moved to China; it's cheaper

Speak for yourself, faggot

Economic liberal detected!

So am I, actually.

>Apple makes a monumental profit in France and don't pay shit
Then why don't -you- sue them to collect it instead of trying to force us to change our tax laws on some bullshit excuse so they get driven out?

We're working on it. Give it a few more elections.

The American people hate it. Our government is fucking bought by business.

>the choice is Trump who has used all those tricks or Clinton who has used those tricks to actually sell strategic assets to your enemies
Fuck off Bernie you pinko commie bastard, you failed with Ron Paul and you failed with Sanders. Socialism is cancer.

>The American people hate it.
If they did, you'd have elected someone else.

>You'll never go back in time and kill Clement Attlee

You Bernie faggots are a vocal minority. Go to Venezuela if you want to see what a socialist utopia looks like.

>wanting companies to pay 1% tax instead of 0.005% is socialism, EU is communist

What is the point of hosting the compagnies if you don't get taxes from it?

About fucking time.

For every post on Sup Forums about how stupid Brexit was I see two from euros complaining about the EU seriously fucking them over. What gives?

People may be changing but state policy sure as hell won't.

Jerbs?

>Sorry m8, we're changing over here. Lots of Murricans don't care for capitalism anymore.

They employ 6k, all if whom pay tax on their income and VAT on the rest of it.

Because 2% on their profits and 6000 jobs is better than 100% of no profits and no jobs?

Depends what changes we start to see in be Democratic and Republican parties.
That person can vote you know

Everyone here hates it buddy. At least common people. Conservative or liberal. Especially trump supporters. They think companies have sold out the American people and are using other countries like tax havens and China to fuck us. Both parties though are extremely pro business.

The EU is basically encroaching on a sovereign nation's tax system. Would have looked better if they slapped some sort of tariff or something like that.

>Irish are protecting applw
>Irish are known for liking potatoes
>potatoes are the apples of the earth

Pottery

>That person can vote you know
The operative word here being "can".

What's their voter turnout like again?

Poland proves itself a good ally again.

>>potatoes are the apples of the earth

woah

That person won't vote you know

you are asked to tax them as much as you tax every other company
which is already very little compared to other countries

>Explain to me why the fucking EU is a good idea?

you think Apple and other companies would exist in your empty potato fields if you're not in single market.

besides, fuck you ireland. breaking all possible rules by giving selected companies state funding (tax free policies).

Gotta keep tradition alive lad

>Company too greedy to pay taxes
>But employees had better pay theirs

Are you actually defending that?

Why don't they just fish lmao

What's stopping apple from going to other country and taking the jobs with it?

:,( 2bh boys

Well we kind of issued a formal complain and it's the cause of the EU breathing down your neck.

>If they did, you'd have elected someone else.
Not him but elect who? We only ever have two choices.

Nothing, but it isn't asking much for a company to pay its fucking taxes. Why is that such a big deal?

Ireland broke regulations
EU law says countries have no right to give advantages to single companies, this is what the Irish did, they gave apple a special tax break and it's illegal under EU law that has ALWAYS trumps national laws, what would be the purpose of the EU if states could ignore the agreements?
The result is that the tax break is ignored and the taxes apple never payed are now for Ireland to collect.
The act isn't retroactive, the law EU applies exists for 60+ years.

Better than the dole mate.

>cheating the system
>this is good
Fuck off. Germans bring ORDNÜNG to this union and YOU WILL TAKE IT.

good.
your entire country is just surviving as a tax haven at the expense of the rest of the world.

You should expect better.

This confuses me. Why would any cunt want to join the EU if they just shit on the member cunt's sovereignty? Why were people angry about Brexit then? Short term financial loss seems worth regaining your country's sovereignty imo.

It's a thing called free market economics. The sustainable competitive advantage Ireland holds is low tax tech industry. Such employers can move locations at the drop of a hat. All socialist states fail, accept this.

Fuck you finland every country abuses the EU for their own benefits, why can't we?

>tfw TISA or TTIP will probably pass and undo the regulations

Usually corruption, unstable government's, shitholes in general so that excludes Africa, Latin America, Asia. Leaving only first world nations and micronations. Lots of first world countries have rules about using these micronations or else every company would use them. Ireland's bit of an odd man out.

>We only ever have two choices.
And if enough of you turn out to vote for one of them being a socialist, he'll win. Look at Trump's campaign, it was grassroots and now he's running against Clinton.

>they gave apple a special tax break
Wrong. Apple paid all tax in Ireland they were due to pay. We're not responsible for them paying tax on something they earned in France or Germany and using loopholes in America to avoid taxes, it's not our jurisdiction.

>apple literally employs 5k people since '14
>they owe 13 billion in taxes
>2.6 million government tax per worker
>muh jobs that are going to be lost durrrr think of the economy

quite seriously i've come to realize that early 20's anglos are hands down the dumbest creatures on this planet.

you fags are beyond retarded