// [TimCook, Apple CEO] rejected the assertion by European competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, who conducted a three-year investigation into the iPhone maker’s complex tax dealings, that Apple paid just 0.005% tax in Ireland in 2014. She said Apple’s sweetheart tax deal with Ireland constituted illegal state aid.
“It’s total political crap,” Cook said. “They just picked a number from I don’t know where. In the year that the commission says we paid that tax figure, we actually paid $400m. We believe that makes us the highest taxpayer in Ireland that year.” //