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[gigatexal]

How? If Apple left the EU entirely, closed all stores, shut down all EU operations, what jurisdiction would the EU have?

[gamblor956 → gigatexal]

If Apple actually did that, then none.

But Apple's corporate tax structure requires them to be in the EU. It's not just the loss of EU revenues at stake; Apple would owe hundreds of billions more in taxes each year as a result of this "simple" suggestion.

[gigatexal → gamblor956]

their irish tax shelter thing maybe they move it to the UK not part of the EU and then that fixes things?>