Apple, one that does not say Cook and his signature on agreements – The Republic

MILAN – It rails against Europe, just consider the taxes paid (or unpaid) in Ireland and the few who still paid In the USA. It recognizes that the mind of the group with his inventions is that here in California and who benefits and any tax levies. Tim Cook relies on a letter all his disappointment with the EU asks 13 billion in back taxes. It advances the credit for what Apple has done in Europe and in Ireland. Speaks in general of the group, the Irish and European subsidiaries, employees who work in Cork, but forgets to mention two Irish companies, Apple Operations International (Aoi) who brokered for Apple Inc sales in America and Apple Sales International (ASI), which handled the sale of the products in Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, Asia and the Pacific. And are the Americans themselves (mind you not the European Commissioners) in the survey report of the Permanent subcommitte on investigation (PSI) of the US Senate, entitled “Offshore Profit Shifting and the Us tax code”, dated May 21, 2013 to denounce what are the Aoi and Asi.
It ‘s true, as claimed by Cook in his letter, that Apple has opened up several companies in Ireland and in different historical periods has also created jobs. The Irish companies were incorporated in the Eighties and initially were really the headquarters of the group’s production. But what Cook does not say is that as a result of the crisis of the nineties, Apple has moved production to China, while maintaining the same corporate structure to take advantage of the related tax benefits. It is no coincidence that Cook did not even speak of Aoi, for example, the holding company that owns many foreign affiliates of the group and through which pass all receipts Use: Built-branch under the Irish legislation in 1980 , while sharing the same address in Cork of many other companies in the group, has not here or anywhere else in Ireland no physical presence.

Furthermore, the Aoi since its landing in Ireland, more than 30 years ago “does not never had no employees, “write the investigators Use citing the interrogation of one of its directors Cathy Kearney (occurred on April 19, 2013). At the time of the survey, the Aoi was staffed by two employees, both of California’s Apple Inc, Gene Levoff and Gary Wipfler, who lived in California, and covered the same role as directors for countless other companies of the group, and an Irish, Cathy Kearney fact, however, assumed by another company of the Apple (the Adi with the vice president of qualifying for European operations).
meetings of the Board of Aoi have always been held in the United States: ” of the 33 meetings held – the report says – between the years 2006 and 2012, as many as 32 were made at Cupertino and Kearney has participated in only 7 of these, 6 of which intervened by phone. ” Apple itself has stated that for Aoi did not exist or personal bank accounts in Ireland. Yet Aoi, by admission of Apple, received between 2009 and 2012, 29.9 billion dollars in dividends from the foreign network of the operating companies of Apple.
The US Senate report ( on page 23) reveals using the same Apple statements, as they are misleading the words of Cook: “the Apple explained that, although Aoi is incorporated in Ireland since 1980, has never declared to be resident in Ireland or in any other country, so that he never paid no tax of any national government in the last five years “. The company has been able to do this because in Ireland has declared that it was a company under control of an Irish mother company and the US said instead of not being a company incorporated under US law. In the same
condition of Aoi, no tax residence and no employees, there was also the Apple Sales International (ASI), the management of which has been active in the same Tim Cook, signing a cost-sharing agreement with Apple Inc. So if you true that by 60 employees of Cork in the 80′s it has come to 6 thousand people in Ireland, why not talk then of what job they have done the Irish Aoi and Asi and their weight in terms of personnel? An obscure work but brought into the spotlight by the Commission of the Senate she, like the EU, to the hunting of money escaped from Apple. Today, thanks to aggressive tax planning, in the group’s coffers are nearly $ 230 billion, many of them in offshore safes. And before which pales the request for 13 billion euro from the European Commission.

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