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"Apple pays VAT"

Apple do not pay VAT, consumers pay VAT.

You don't also count the PAYE each of Apples employees pay as "tax that Apple pays" do you?

I never would: not enough fingers.

Apple tax lawyers probably do count it, when asked to inflated the number.

As ludicrous as it sounds, when Starbucks was caught not paying any tax in the UK for over a decade it claimed VAT, NI and PAYE (later excluded) as taxes that it has paid.

http://www.starbucks.co.uk/blog/starbucks-commitment-to-the-...

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