First it was Google; then Amazon. This week it was the turn – again – of Apple to be the latest big international company to come under fire for adroit tax planning. The tech group chose to pay money back to shareholders by raising $17bn of debt rather than repatriate some of the huge reserves of cash it holds overseas, which would have resulted in it writing a big cheque to the US Internal Revenue Service.
先是谷歌(Google)，后是亚马逊(Amazon)，现在又再一次轮到苹果(Apple)了：由于做了一次巧妙的税务规划，苹果成为最新一家在此问题上遭到诟病的大型跨国企业。为了向股东返还170亿美元资金，这家科技集团决定以发债的方式来筹措到这笔钱，而不是将其在海外的巨额现金储备调回国一部分，原因是采取后一种做法的话，苹果就得向美国国税局(Internal Revenue Service)上缴大笔税款。
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