In order to reject
Apple's 13 billion Euro tax, Ireland rather offended EC-Ireland,
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"Ireland's tax system is very transparent, and enterprise tax is under the framework of the law, we will not give any special treatment. "Ireland Treasury Minister-Owen Murphy (Eoghan Murphy) yesterday, exclusive to business journalists in an interview in Shanghai, said," we don't give Apple any special tax incentives, has sued the European Union we do, but we believe that the European Union had made a mistake, so appealing, and we are confident that we can win! ”
Murphy accused the European Union of Ireland is prosecuted for competition purposes rather than the tax issue . He said: "the EU does not understand how tax laws are implemented at the international level, their mistakes not only to impose charges on Ireland, and Ireland overshadowed the pure tax system, tend to deny the consensus of the people in the past, designed to want Ireland competition. ”
Murphy said the "consensus" was 30 years ago, Apple and other technology companies came to Ireland when conducting business, recognized by the EU from the outset. "The EU clearly Ireland investment development authority is working with Apple and other technology companies, and help them take the first step here. "Murphy said," in 30 years, no one has ever encountered any problems, now the European Union questioned the sudden, equal to the total repudiation of the past. ”
He also said that Ireland has a very good reputation in tax, international companies doing business here to improve the tax system and services. "Ireland's tax is not the lowest in the EU, many companies to Ireland settled in, not only because of tax factors, also because of higher educational quality of the labor force. "Murphy said" foreign companies to Ireland as many as 187,000 jobs created. They have found here the young dynamic and best-educated labor force . ”
Murphy said the EU appeal is the decision of the Government, Parliament and people, and this is a very strong appeal. He said usually the appeals process takes two months, just over a month now. "We hope more companies to join us, because we think this is potentially a very negative precedent, would subvert the case consensus about best practices for tax. But after the appeal, investigation process will last two or three years.
Murphy led Ireland financial technology delegation to visit Shanghai, hoping to attract Chinese companies to invest in love international financial services.
Coincidence is that Murphy during his visit to China, EU competition officials (European competition Commissioner) Margrethe Vestager visited United States, hoping to ease unpleasant due to Apple tax disputes. Vestager met with United States Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Georgetown (Georgetown Univesity) published a document entitled "global antitrust" theme of the speech. But her visit was neglected more than meet.
United States parliamentary Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said: "the EU and close cooperation with other countries, strengthening the establishment of the framework of global tax, global tax laws and regulations, but in the recent so-called ' State aid ' rules, choose dates back between sovereign and corporate taxes, to oppress a United States company. ”
Vestager reaffirmed Ireland Government gives special concessions to Apple: "we shall not prevent the Government in each of these companies tax breaks, but they can't selectively to discriminate some especially popular with company. So when we have opened a tax violation, and we want to ensure the fairness of the market and equal opportunities for all. "She also said that this practice is totally fair, is in line with public expectations. This is not intended to subject to special interests, but to encourage and protect the public interest.
In Ireland the Apple tax disputes in occasion of the white-hot, United States, everyone seemed to agree that reform of the tax system is the best way to help enterprises solve the problems. Hatch said: "due to reduce the tax burden, can help to invest back home. This is a commitment can be achieved. ”
为了拒绝
苹果130亿欧元税款，爱尔兰宁可得罪欧盟 - 爱尔兰,
苹果公司 - IT资讯
“爱尔兰的税收体制是非常透明的，对于企业的税收都是在法律的框架之下，我们绝不会给任何企业特殊的待遇。”爱尔兰财政部国务部长欧文-莫菲（Eoghan Murphy）昨天在上海接受采访时对第一财经记者独家表示，“我们没有给过苹果任何特殊的税收优惠政策，欧盟起诉我们这样做了，但是我们认为欧盟搞错了，所以提起上诉，而且我们非常有信心能赢下来！”
莫菲指责欧盟对爱尔兰的起诉是出于竞争目的而不是税务问题。他说：“欧盟不懂得税法是如何在国际上实施的，他们的错误不仅仅在于把罪名强加于爱尔兰，而且给爱尔兰纯洁的税收体系蒙上了阴影，企图否定一些过去人们的共识，目的就在于希望与爱尔兰竞争。”
莫菲所说的“共识”是30年前，苹果和其它科技公司来到爱尔兰开展业务时，一开始就获得的欧盟的认可。“欧盟非常清楚爱尔兰投资发展局是如何与苹果等科技公司合作，帮助它们在这里迈出第一步。”莫菲说，“30年来，没有人遇到过任何问题，现在欧盟突然提出质疑，等于全盘否定了过去。”
他还表示，爱尔兰拥有非常良好的税收信誉，为国际公司在这里做业务提供了完善的税制体系和服务。“爱尔兰的税收其实并不是欧盟中最低的，很多公司来爱尔兰落户，不仅仅是因为税收的因素，更是因为高等的教育的劳动力素质。”莫菲说，“国外公司为爱尔兰创造了多达18.7万工作岗位。他们在这里找到了最年轻有活力，又受过最好教育的劳动力。”
莫菲说，对欧盟提起上诉是政府、议会和人民共同的决定，而且这是非常强烈的上诉。他表示，通常上诉的过程要两个月，现在刚过一个月。“我们希望有更多的公司加入我们，因为我们认为这是一个潜在的非常负面的先例，将颠覆人们对于最佳实践税收案例的共识。不过提出上诉之后，调查的过程将持续两到三年。
莫菲所率领的爱尔兰金融科技代表团日前对上海进行访问，希望吸引中国企业赴爱投资国际金融服务。
巧合的是，就在莫菲访华期间，欧盟竞争官员（European competition commissioner）Margrethe Vestager造访美国，希望缓和两国因苹果税务纠纷引起的不愉快。Vestager会见了美国财长杰克-卢，还在乔治城大学（Georgetown Univesity）发表了题为“全球反垄断”主题的演讲。不过她的访问受到的冷遇多过迎合。
美国议会金融委员会主席Orrin Hatch就表示：“欧盟并没有和其它国家紧密合作，加强全球税收框架的建立，提升全球税收的法律法规，而是在近期的所谓‘国家援助’规定中，选择通过追溯在主权国家和企业之间的税收，来欺压一家美国公司。”
Vestager则重申了爱尔兰政府对苹果给出特殊优惠：“我们的规定并不阻止政府在每一个企业身上减免税收，但是他们不能有选择性地对某些特别受欢迎的公司进行差别对待。所以当我们开出税收罚单时，我们是希望保证市场的公平性，人人机会平等。”她还说，这样的做法完全公平，也是符合公众的期待。这不是为了符合一些特殊利益，而是鼓励并保卫公众的利益。
在爱尔兰苹果税的纷争仍然处于白热化之际，美国方面，大家似乎开始一直认同税收体系改革将是帮助企业解决问题的最好途径。Hatch表示：“适当减轻企业税负，能有助于投资回流本土。这是一个能够达到的承诺。”