That sounds like premodern punishment --it still exists in some societies as a common way to enforce morality where the central govt is weak.
I'm sure I'm not an exception thinking this is a backwards approach to influence behavior.
I'm sure I'm not an exception thinking this is a backwards approach to influence behavior.
Better to shut their stores down than let them keep operating illegally, the French tax authorities should be arresting and charging management with tax fraud for their illicit scam. Apple is stealing from you and me, increasing our taxes with these tax scams.
Its a very practical and approachable court system for the common person comparatively.
Apple makes huges efforts to violate the spirit of tax law (that a business making good profit should pay quite some taxes) while trying to avoid that authorities / courts can prove it. Actually they have been fined already, they are still appealing. So whether they comply with the law is formally undecided.
Edit: Not sure whether "fined" is the correct legal term. They have received some kind of "letter" that they have not paid what was legally required in the past and they are obliged to pay the missing sum (13 billion EUR).