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Apple Finds Out It Took the Tax Game Too Far
There's a line between corporate responsibility to shareholders and to the world.
Did the "head office" even have a sign?
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You want your multinational corporation to be seen as a good corporate citizen. But you also feel obliged to your company’s shareholders to keep it from paying a cent more in taxes than it is required to.
So what’s the dividing line beyond which responsible tax management turns into poor citizenship? Well, for the moment it appears to be somewhere between this: