After news broke recently that Apple would have to pay Ireland some €13 billion ($14.5 billion USD) in back taxes, Apple’s CEO today fired back that the ruling was “total political crap.” “No one did anything wrong here,” Cook said. “Ireland is being picked on, and this is unacceptable.” The European Commission ruled Tuesday that Ireland gave Apple illegal tax benefits by not collecting the €13 billion owed over a 10-year period. The ruling put a close on a two year investigation that found Apple’s effective tax rate on reported profit in Ireland to be just €500 per million euros in…
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