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Yes, if the executives at Apple decide that they want to pay corporate taxes in Ireland instead of the US to reduce their taxes and increase their income, they should move Apple to Ireland from the valley.

You can twist my words to "Is it wrong for Toyota to open a subsidiary in the US?" as you like, it doesn't change the point.

Some people bring arguments, some play word games "Not to mention that executives don't "have" companies"

The ShapeShift Hack 10 years ago

Didn't know

"Who here remembers the story of a bank called X.com? It was a tiny, little-known online bank, until it was hacked and covered in the mainstream press during the first dot-com boom. Its popularity absolutely soared after the hack. I actually had an account on X.com, but if you didn't and never heard of it, you may perhaps have heard of X.com's founder, a fellow who goes by the name of Elon Musk."

"In the short term, these dishonest tricks raise revenue for newspapers that use them. But in the longer term, they do even more damage, by giving the whole industry a reputation for bad business practices. Cable companies can get away with it because of government-granted monopolies; newspapers won’t be able to."

I agree, I don't think "serfdom" is racist, but it doesn't shine a good light on you to use, and erodes the trust people put in you by default.

" if there's no tax rate competition"

The point is, these executives are not living in Ireland or Panama but in the valley or some highly developed country in Europe. So while the enjoy the benefits of those countries, the want to avoid paying taxes.

No one has anything against people who want to enjoy Irish tax laws who move to Ireland. Or people who want to have a company in Panama to move to Panama.

"Very quickly, we realize he is pretty much useless. "

When you hire IT people, have no clue how distinguish between a good one and a fake one, in other words have no clue, this happens.

Also not enough oversight and auditing admins when money is involved is a bad sign.