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I don’t necessarily agree with your conclusion, but I do think it’s important to emphasize that Apple is collecting VAT across the EU and paying large quantitie

I don’t necessarily agree with your conclusion, but I do think it’s important to emphasize that Apple is collecting VAT across the EU and paying large quantities of money to all EU countries as a result. The amount of tax revenue generated by VAT will be an order of magnitude larger than income tax, since the former is on revenue and the latter is on profit.

627467 6y ago
Yet, VAT is not Apple's money, it's the end consumer's.
- zeroimpl 6y ago
  The money used to pay income taxes also was the consumer's money originally. It's really all the same thing.