{"id":20938,"date":"2013-05-21T22:11:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T21:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20938"},"modified":"2013-05-21T22:11:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T21:11:49","slug":"apple-wants-a-tax-cut-as-its-reward-for-tax-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/21\/apple-wants-a-tax-cut-as-its-reward-for-tax-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple wants a tax cut as its reward for tax abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2013\/may\/21\/apple-wants-single-digit-corporate-tax\" target=\"_blank\">the Guardian notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple\u00a0has called for US corporate tax rates to be slashed after it admitted sheltering at least $30bn (\u00a320bn) of international profits in Irish subsidiaries that pay no tax at all.<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic display of how threats from multinational corporations are driving down taxes across the world, chief executive\u00a0Tim Cook\u00a0warned Congress that he would refuse to repatriate a total of $100bn stashed offshore unless it acted to slash the 35% US rate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let's look at this kindly. Apple is saying what it wants as a reward for its tax abuse is a tax cut.<\/p>\n<p>And now let's look at this candidly: Apple's willing to hold the US to ransom.<\/p>\n<p>What did Margaret Hodge say about Google?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian notes: Apple\u00a0has called for US corporate tax rates to be slashed after it admitted sheltering at least $30bn (\u00a320bn) of international profits<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/21\/apple-wants-a-tax-cut-as-its-reward-for-tax-abuse\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}