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    #32
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    blanch152 wrote: »
    6,000 people are directly employed by Apple at their Holyhill plant. What do they do, count FDI?

    There are thousands more indirectly employed and others at other Apple centres.

    Hardly call that scraps.

    They aren’t, but Apple isn’t a shell company either.

    Shell companies usually don’t employ many people and are set up purely as a means to avoid tax. Round Island one, for example.

    http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/Irish_Economy/article_1027178_printer.shtml


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    #33
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,699 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    dublinbando wrote: »
    You talk like you are a member of the government.

    You talk like GOD.....

    Will we keep doing this for the night?


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    #34
    TheChizler
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    dublinbando wrote: »
    Hey I have no problem with Ireland having a 12.5% corporate tax rate but I do have a problem with companies not actually paying the 12.5% rate, which was the case with Apple, I don't know how they did it but they were paying 1% back in 2003 and then 0.005% back in 2014.

    They paid 12.5% on profits made in Ireland, it's the profits not made in Ireland that all the fuss was about.


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    #35
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Matt, you always come across as a man who has all the questions and none of the answers. The classic hurler on the ditch.


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    #36
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Matt, you always come across as a man who has all the questions and none of the answers. The classic hurler on the ditch.

    I asked questions. Who asks questions if they have the answers? Is it my questions upsetting you? If it upsets you don't chime in johnny plenty of other discussions..


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    #37
    6541
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    Patrick Honohan did a very interesting interview on RTE last saturday. He said straight out the the country is relying too much on FDI. He even went on to say that there will be a cliff edge moment when FDI companies will pull out en mass at the same time. He is basically predicting carnage.


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    #38
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    6541 wrote: »
    Patrick Honohan did a very interesting interview on RTE last saturday. He said straight out the the country is relying too much on FDI. He even went on to say that there will be a cliff edge moment when FDI companies will pull out en mass at the same time. He is basically predicting carnage.

    Would be but I reckon we'll be okay in that regard unless the Brits try compete after Brexit. Race to the bottom for the corporate betterment.


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