Should we be withdrawing from the apple tax case?

sabat

There's €13 billion currently in escrow and possibly about half that amount again in penalties available for the country at the stroke of a pen. Given that Varadkar tonight spoke about piling even more debt upon future generations, to not draw down that money under threat from corporate interests is bordering on criminal.

Seth Brundle

Oh dear

False Prophet

No, worst thing we could do.
And we cant just take it, as rest of europe would want its share

sabat

False Prophet wrote: »

No, worst thing we could do.
And we cant just take it, as rest of europe would want its share

Not true. The tax just had to have been paid somewhere in the EU, which it wasn't. The money would go straight to the exchequer in Ireland.

plodder

Ireland isn't the only party to the case. If we withdrew, then Apple would continue regardless.

Donald Trump

sabat wrote: »

Not true. The tax just had to have been paid somewhere in the EU, which it wasn't. The money would go straight to the exchequer in Ireland.

No. You are wrong. The fine is because it is claimed that they did not pay tax that was due all across Europe.

Beasty

Not for this forum