5 Biggest Apple Controversies Ever


#2 Apple evaded billions in tax

Apple used complex web offshore entities to avoid billions in taxes. The Cupertino giant’s rootless subsidiaries had just one purpose: to funnel much of the company's global profits and dodge billions of dollars in U.S. tax obligations, according to the report by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

One of Apple's Irish affiliates reported profits of USD 30 billion between 2009 and 2012, but because it did not technically belong to any country, it paid no taxes to any government. Another paid a tax rate of 0.05 per cent in 2011 on USD 22 billion in earnings, according to the report.

Apple also exploited the gap between the two nations, the U.S. and Ireland, through three of its subsidiaries the company claims are not tax resident in any nation, to avoid paying taxes.

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