Apple to donate to Australian bush fire relief efforts

Sadly, this is not the type of help Australia needs from Apple. The company pays virtually no tax on billions of dollars of revenue from sales of its products and services in Australia. The avoidance of its tax obligations means that the Government cannot provide services to its citizens and most recently had cut 10s of millions from its fire services in the most affected state of NSW. We don’t need billionaires
or corporations throwing pocket change at problems. They need to honor their social contract of paying its tax obligations.

design_editor said:

Sadly, this is not the type of help Australia needs from Apple. The company pays virtually no tax on billions of dollars of revenue from sales of its products and services in Australia. The avoidance of its tax obligations means that the Government cannot provide services to its citizens and most recently had cut 10s of millions from its fire services in the most affected state of NSW. We don’t need billionaires
or corporations throwing pocket change at problems. They need to honor their social contract of paying its tax obligations.

Source? Article from earlier this year cites apple paying 30% tax rate in Australia:

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/apple-s-aussie-profits-grew-but-its-tax-bill-went-down-20190125-p50tnx.html

design_editor said:

Sadly, this is not the type of help Australia needs from Apple. The company pays virtually no tax on billions of dollars of revenue from sales of its products and services in Australia. The avoidance of its tax obligations means that the Government cannot provide services to its citizens and most recently had cut 10s of millions from its fire services in the most affected state of NSW. We don’t need billionaires
or corporations throwing pocket change at problems. They need to honor their social contract of paying its tax obligations.

Always someone to find negative in an article....Love the glass is always half empty approach of some people. 

Honestly, Apple could literally pay $10's of Billions of dollars in taxes in each country every year and people would still bitch about Apple avoids paying taxes. If Apple is avoiding taxes, then maybe the Government (not Apple) fix it! There's obviously loopholes your government can fix to avoid this if it is indeed true. 

pays virtually no tax on billions of dollars of revenue from sales of its products and services in Australia.

It is this ignorance of the difference between revenue and profit (indeed the constant conflation of the two, particularly on the ABC and Fairfax/Nine pubs) that is yet another simple demonstration of the appalling state of the education system in Australia today. The National Curriculum must die.

StrangeDays said:

design_editor said:

Sadly, this is not the type of help Australia needs from Apple. The company pays virtually no tax on billions of dollars of revenue from sales of its products and services in Australia. The avoidance of its tax obligations means that the Government cannot provide services to its citizens and most recently had cut 10s of millions from its fire services in the most affected state of NSW. We don’t need billionaires
or corporations throwing pocket change at problems. They need to honor their social contract of paying its tax obligations.

Source? Article from earlier this year cites apple paying 30% tax rate in Australia:

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/apple-s-aussie-profits-grew-but-its-tax-bill-went-down-20190125-p50tnx.html

This would have been the more proper link as it's an Appleinsider article.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/25/apples-australian-tax-bill-falls-to-164m-despite-rising-profits

There's finally an international effort being made to address tax avoidance strategies undertaken by large multinational companies. Apple Australia for example, just like many other local subsidiaries of global corporations, pays a selling, general and administrative expense (referred to as SG&A) to its parent company which in Apple's case is currently located in the tax haven of Jersey off the French coast. That's one way it reduces its taxable income in the country where the sale occurred, and a really effective strategy employed by other big techs and pharma and not just Apple.

Now back to the topic....
First it was fires in the Amazon, and now in Australia.  Not a good year for the the forests and even millions in donation from big tech won't fix it.