I suppose when you’re the head of a company with a market cap that’s bigger than the GDP of Sweden, you don’t need to worry about being diplomatic. So, when Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked yesterday about his company’s record-breaking €13 billion ($14.5 billion) back tax bill, instead of delivering the standard corporate PR soundbites denying wrongdoing, he simply dismissed it as “total political crap.”
In a colorful interview with the Irish Independent, Cook went on to claim that Ireland was being “picked on” in a political move to establish more uniform tax rates across Europe, and rejected EU claims that the company paid just 0.005 percent tax in Ireland in 2014. “They just picked a number from I don’t know where…we actually paid $400 million. We believe that makes us the highest taxpayer in Ireland that year,” he said.
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