A report commissioned by the Left group in the European Parliament has found systematic tax evasion and abuse of legal loopholes by tech giant Apple between 2015 and 2017. Apple has no geographical disclosure of profits and taxes wherever it operates – paying $13.9 billion in taxes for the Americas but only $1.7 billion for the rest of the world combined. The research suggests that Apple could be paying as little as 0.7% tax on its EU profits; Along with Apple, US multinationals like Starbucks, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, AirBnB and Pfizer have used the ‘Double Irish’, the ‘Dutch Sandwich’ and even the ’Single Malt’ (Ireland-Malta treaty) to facilitate tax avoidance;
— source guengl.eu