This is naive.<p>Apple US sells Apple Ireland a macbook pro for 1000$. 1000$ is what it costs Apple US to get it from China, so no taxes as there is no profit.<p>Apple Ireland sells that same macbook to Apple UK for 2000$.  Apple Ireland realizes 1000$ in profit, and pays the Irish rate on that profit. Apple UK pays no tax, because they bought the machine for 2k and sold it to consumers for 2k, giving them 0 profit on the sale of a new macbook.<p>Using this shell game i can realize 100% of my profits in any particular tax jurisdiction that I want; regardless of where sales are actually made.<p>I now pay 0 taxes in the UK regardless of whether I sell 1 unit or 1 billion units in the UK.<p>Do you think this is above board?<p>Do you believe that the company selling 1 billion units and paying 0 taxes represents an equivalent burden on society to the company selling 1 unit and paying 0 tax?<p>Does this company not use the publicly maintained roads? Airports? Are its UK workers not kept healthy by the publicly available health services?<p>Sure apple paid all of its legal obligations on its 0$ of profit in the UK - how they ended up with a reported 0$ profit in the UK is something worth having a conversation about.