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to sibling poster: He has written about the New York Times reporting on Apple’s taxes. You can say that he’s just being an Apple apologist here, but it’s not as if he has ignored the topic:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/09/apple-taxes-98

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That was about Apple paying taxes on what profits they bought into the US. I'm talking about the offshore tax havens where most of their money is kept.

I'm talking about this:

Google Joins Apple In Push For Tax Holiday

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/google-joins-apple-...

White House Unmoved By Apple’s Offshore Cash Problem

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/white-house-unm...

Does Apple actually keep money in off-shore tax-havens? They are legitimately making tons of cash everywhere in the world (the majority of their revenue and profit) and that money is stuck there and they can’t bring it to the US. It’s not like they moved the money out of the US to flee some tax, they just didn’t make it in the US but elsewhere.

It’s seems to me that this is the main driver here for Apple.

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