The health of the business remains challenged given results and guide, but the company is adjusting to business conditions and addressing capital allocation, which we think investors will view positively
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I study billionaires for a living. To be more specific, I study how these investors generate such huge and consistent profits in the stock markets -- year-in and year-out.
America's tax system is broken and uncompetitive ... The egregious loopholes that exist in the tax code must be closed so that the nearly $1 trillion in untaxed overseas profits can come back to the United States.
Apple has over $100 billion, more than two-thirds of its total profits, stashed away in an offshore account.
We pay all the taxes we owe — every single dollar ... We don't depend on tax gimmicks.
Apple's a good company but no company, no company, should be able to determine how much it's going to pay in taxes
I'm offended by the spectacle of dragging in executives from a company that is not doing anything illegal ... I frankly think the committee should apologize to Apple.
nowhere in the world ... It's completely outrageous.
I think it's important to tell our story
Apple executives want the public to focus on the U.S. taxes the company has paid, but the real issue is the billions in taxes it has not paid
We not only comply with the laws, we comply with the spirit of the laws.
We pay all the taxes we owe - every single dollar
We make no apologies for having a regime that is designed to promote employment. It is a regime we have had for close to 50 years.
Ours is not a specially put-together deal; it is absolutely transparent, there are no side deals, no special arrangements.
When I go into the boardrooms either in Asia or the U.S., I am followed into those boardrooms by Swiss, by Singaporeans, by Dutch, by Belgians who are offering specially put-together deals on the tax front
In the long run, the U.S. Congress, if they wanted to, could wipe out those 150,000 real jobs, and we don't want to provoke people by over-egging it, by doing things that are clearly upsetting the U.S.
Tax has always been an element of the Irish offering, and this will continue to be so, but what you have to avoid is what is known as harmful tax competition. We scrupulously avoid that.
They play the tax codes one against the other; that is tax planning, and I think we do need international cooperation through the OECD to deal with the aggressive nature of that
