Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, told Congress this week that “we pay all the taxes we owe, every dollar”. Yet his company apparently earns tens of billions of dollars on which it pays little or no tax. Faced with this apparent contradiction, and similar stories about other companies appearing almost daily, it is not surprising that the public has lost trust in the ability of governments to tax multinational companies’ profits.
蘋果(Apple)首席執行官蒂姆?庫克(Tim Cook)上周對美國國會表示，“該繳的稅我們都繳了，一美元都不差”。然而，他掌管的企業顯然有數百億美元利潤只繳納了很少的稅、或者一點稅都沒繳。面對這種明顯的矛盾、以及其他企業的類似情況（幾乎每天都能發現這種情況），難怪公眾已不再相信政府有能力對跨國企業的利潤征稅。
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