Re: This doesn't cost Apple anything in the long run
Apple is only "investing" the money is the most conservative investments possible, so they will lose one or two percent, which is less than the interest the US government is going to charge them...
While the US may "chime in", they have little to say about how the EU's tax laws are interpreted. But if the EU prevails, this does NOT go into EU coffers. It goes into Ireland's coffers alone. The reason the EU is fighting this is because they feel that Ireland is getting an unfair advantage over other EU countries.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
