Protesting Against Apple’s Tax Policy - Dublin Street Art. (Source: William Murphy/flickr)
Today is St. Patrick’s Day, but Ireland is on the front pages for something else: the never-ending tax squabble between regulators (on both sides of the pond) and Apple.
The European Commission has asked Ireland to supply missing data on Apple’s tax operations in the country, claiming that the Irish government may have provided “special treatment” for the company, resulting in Apple potentially skirting huge sums in taxes.
This is not the first time that Apple has come under fire for its Eire-based operations. The company has been involved in tax investigations with both the Irish government and the U.S. government for years. Indeed, Apple has come to be somewhat of an emblem for the tax avoidance strategies that huge corporations, especially technology ones, embrace…
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