“Apple Inc. said it issued $7 billion in corporate bonds, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Thursday,” Wallace Witkowski reports for MarketWatch.
“Apple has been using debt to pay shareholders while holding most of its $256 billion in cash overseas to avoid repatriation taxes,” Witkowski reports. “The company increased its shareholder-return program last week to $300 billion in concert with a quarterly earnings report that showed Apple added slightly more debt than cash in the quarter.”
Witkowski reports, “Since Apple launched its shareholder-return program in 2012, its long-term debt has risen from zero to nearly $85 billion as of the end of last quarter.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Until U.S. tax reform, including a repatriation holiday, expect to see more of this.
It’s difficult for us to speculate about what might or might not happen. The program that we’re announcing today reflects the current tax legislation in this country, and there’s a lot that still needs to happen there, and we’ll see. Obviously, we will reassess our situation if things change. – Apple CFO Luca Maestri, May 02, 2017
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If you did what Apple is doing they would lock you up. It is income tax evasion.
Another know-nothing–that Dave! Apple already paid appropriate taxes in each country where the income was earned. How would you like to be taxed by Romania for your earnings in the USA, you fool?
It happens to US citizens every day.
The tax laws should be changed, but what is on the books is on the books and if you were found banking money overseas to avoid US taxes you would be charged with income tax evasion.
It amazes me that people of common means worry about the taxes paid by the wealthy and corporations. You as an individual pay a higher effective rate on your income than the effective rate of corporate taxes in these United States.
Finally, why is income derived from employment taxed at a higher rate than income derived from investment?
Apple could just stop putting itself in the Liability hole and focus on making the best machines ever. Playing Wall Street is a stupid strategy. It should have no debt whatsoever.