Another day, yet another controversial statement from Apple's co-founder and everyone's favorite uncle, Steve Wozniak. In an interview BBC News, Woz said he believed Apple and all companies should pay 50% the same as he personally pays.
"I work a lot, travel a lot and pay more than 50% of everything I do in taxes, and I believe that is part of life and everyone should do it," said Woz. When asked if Apple should also pay this fee, he replied: "All companies in the world should."
As is well known, large companies have extremely complex schemes to pay as little tax as possible within the limits of legal limits (this is when they do not openly violate the law, of course). Ma, for example, directs most of its business in Europe to subsidiaries in Ireland, where the tax is in the range of 12.5% ​​which has sparked a million dollar legal dispute for the company in Italy recently. For comparison, in the UK this rate rises to 20%; in the United States, to 35%.
Whether or not he agrees with Wozniak's opinion, he raises an important question that deserves to be discussed: how acceptable is it for corporations to be able to escape the payment of monstrous taxes while most of us mere mortals gladly pay? Undoubtedly, a drastic change like the one that Woz suggests would be catastrophic in the short term, causing a lot of layoffs and rising prices after all, we ourselves will pay the duck. But in a global perspective, in the long run, would it be all bad? It remains the proposal of reflex.
(via MacRumors)
