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zeroimpl on July 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned

I don’t necessarily agree with your conclusion, but I do think it’s important to emphasize that Apple is collecting VAT across the EU and paying large quantities of money to all EU countries as a result. The amount of tax revenue generated by VAT will be an order of magnitude larger than income tax, since the former is on revenue and the latter is on profit.

627467 on July 15, 2020 [–]

Yet, VAT is not Apple's money, it's the end consumer's.

zeroimpl on July 15, 2020 | [–]

The money used to pay income taxes also was the consumer's money originally. It's really all the same thing.

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