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tl;dr:

- $0 taxes referring to income tax only

- completely within NZ tax laws - theyre paying 30% tax to Australia instead of 28% to NZ because of the AU/NZ tax agreement

- typical clickbait headline

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Hate to sound like an elitist, but it's funny how countless other companies do this, but Apple gets called out on it. Maybe larger sums of money get the attention of people who are apparently incapable of thinking in terms of ratios and percentages.

They pay very little tax in Australia. On about $8 billion in revenue they paid about $80 million in income tax.

They also paid GST and payroll taxes which would be hundreds of millions. Don't cherry-pick one type of tax as a basis for your argument.

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