Apple’s tax move - Must-win battle

Apple has decided to pay taxes of around €31bn — twice our annual health budget — to move hundreds of billions of dollars to the US.

Apple’s tax move - Must-win battle

Apple has decided to pay taxes of around €31bn — twice our annual health budget — to move hundreds of billions of dollars to the US.

It gives a glimpse of the scale of the problem facing national legislators and even the EU when they try to fairly tax multinational corporations to try to sustain what might be described, in the very loosest terms, as Europe’s social contract.

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