Euro zone finance chief says Apple "doesn't understand the situation" about its alleged tax evasion

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Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of finance for the Euro zone, harshly charged Apple, accusing it of "not understanding the situation" facing the Californian company and assured that the company "does not understand what is happening in today's society".

There are no signs of truce in the dialectical war waged between the European Commission and Apple, following the demand imposed on the company that would force him to pay retroactively the sum of all taxes avoided for more than a decade. In total, a sum equivalent to about $ 15 billion, or what is the same, about € 13 billion.

Following the harsh words of Tim Cook, CEO of the company, describing the tax decision as "political garbage", Mr. Dijsselbloem, according to the The Wall Street Journal, on behalf of the EC it represents, has responded with the same harshness:

“Apple's response shows that they don't understand what is happening in society; they do not understand what is happening in the public debate. It is a very strong moral issueAnd big companies, even if they are so big, cannot sidestep these issues and say, 'It's not about us, we don't have a problem. «

The problem is going to bring a tail. There is still no real clarification of the tax paid to date by Apple, nor the terms in which the large amount owed should be paid.

Be that as it may, the controversy is served: on the one hand, there are those who support the company thinking that it is not fair that corporations and multinationals like Apple have to pay the same taxes as other companies that allocate much less money to innovation and growth of R&D in one country, and on the other, those who think that We are all equal and we must have the same obligations with the public finances.

We will see how this whole issue is progressing because it does not seem to have a prompt solution.


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  1.   John said

    Let them and everyone else pay, fiscal union now!

  2.   skkilo said

    For Americans, a Billion has 3 more zeros than for us.
    There is no need to translate and convert dollars to euros only.
    For us, it is 13000 billion euros, which for them is 15 billion euros.