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To: wardaddy
But any other smartphone assembly in an EU member state did not get such a waiver?

Apple iPhones are made in China long with pretty much all of their other products. The iMac manufacturing plant they have in Ireland is the only manufacturing facility that they still own in the entire world. It is completely out of their normal operating mode. They were had planned to shut it down years ago, but instead they expanded it... a little in the huge tax avoidance arrangement they made with the Irish government. So to save a few hundred assembly plant jobs and a few thousand phone support jobs Ireland gave Apple $14.3 billion in tax cuts which allowed the world's most profitable company to pay something like .005% on their European earnings.

The absurdity of the situation makes one wonder if the Clinton Foundation didn't have their fingers in the pie at some level. The only thing amazing to me here is that Apple's legal staff wasn't able to figure out a way to buy off enough of the corrupt political class to keep this scam going. It is a sure sign that they are slipping.

31 posted on 08/30/2016 10:13:12 AM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: fireman15
Apple iPhones are made in China long with pretty much all of their other products. The iMac manufacturing plant they have in Ireland is the only manufacturing facility that they still own in the entire world. It is completely out of their normal operating mode. They were had planned to shut it down years ago, but instead they expanded it... a little in the huge tax avoidance arrangement they made with the Irish government. So to save a few hundred assembly plant jobs and a few thousand phone support jobs Ireland gave Apple $14.3 billion in tax cuts which allowed the world's most profitable company to pay something like .005% on their European earnings.

Uh, then what is this manufacturing plant down the road from my Sacramento home in Elk Grove, California, making iMacs? How about the one in Austin, Texas, manufacturing Mac Pros? That one was built in 2012/2013. You are making claims you don't know to be true. iPhones are also manufactured in Brazil. Again, proving you don't know what you are talking about. Apple is also looking to build manufacturing operations in India.

40 posted on 08/30/2016 1:55:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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