Apple says it will pay $38bn in foreign cash taxes and create 20,000 US jobs

[umbertino]

 

Tech giant says it will repatriate some overseas cash holdings

 

Apple has faced sustained criticism for tax evasion policies

 

 

Wed 17 Jan 2018 21.30 GMT

Dominic Rushe in New York

 

 

 

 

Apple chief executive Tim Cook said: ‘We have a deep sense of responsibility to give back to our country.’

Photograph: Brian Powers/AP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/17/apple-cash-tax-jobs

[umbertino]

Buses for Apple employees attacked with pellet guns, company suspects

 

Corporate buses, which ferry workers from San Francisco to its Silicon Valley headquarters, have become symbols of gentrification

 

Wed 17 Jan 2018 20.11 GMT

Olivia Solon in San Francisco

 

 

 

 

Multiple incidents have been reported since 12 January, but no one appears to have been injured, Apple says

Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/17/apple-bus-attack-pellet-guns-silicon-valley

[Muleslayer]

5 hours ago, umbertino said:

for tax evasion policies

Really?

tax AVOIDED I would say!