苹果公司逃税问题
高科技公司想方设法逃避缴税已经不再是秘密，那么这对行业发展到底有何利弊呢?
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Apple
California
Ed Butler
Future In Review
Golden State
Tim Cook
John Petote
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201305/201305260946096967384.mp3Well, tax avoidance seems to be something of a fashion amongst the giants of the technology world, with first Google, and now Apple in the frame. So what do they make of these back in the home of America's tech industry, back in California? Ed Butler is at a Future In Review conference in the Golden State. It's a meeting place for the leaders of all kinds of high-tech businesses and investors. So do they think these efforts to minimise tax are going to damage the tech giants?
As delegates here gathered to discuss some of the blue-sky thinking on which California rightly prides itself, a prevailing sense among many delegates was that the expressions of congressional indignation against Apple had been overplayed and unfair.
"I recall similar to a kangaroo court. If the people who are interrogating Tim Cook, the CEO, if they were in his position, I'm sure the vast majority conservatively would be doing the exact same things."
That's John Petote. He's a leading angel investor who staked his money on more than 50 Californian start-ups in his time. He says Apple's played by the rules and its first priority has to be maximising the return for investors, not the US tax payer.避税似乎在技术产业大亨们之间形成了一种风尚，先前是谷歌公司，现在又爆出苹果公司。那么他们是怎么看这些位于美国老家加利福尼亚技术产业的状况呢？艾德·巴特勒参加了位于加州的future in review会议，这里是各类高新技术产业和投资商先驱们的聚点。那么他们是不是认为税收最小化会摧毁技术大亨呢？
各位会议代表们正聚在此地讨论一些加州理应引以为傲的超前设想，而他们普遍感觉国会对苹果公司义愤填膺的措辞过于夸张、有失偏颇。
“我认为这就像是私设公堂。如果质询苹果首席执行官提姆·库克的人们站在他的立场，我相信保守地讲大多数人也会做出同样的事情。”
讲话的是约翰·皮拓提，他是位天使投资人，已经投资过50多个加州新兴公司。他说道，苹果公司是按规程办事的，它现在首要任务不是增加对纳税人的回报，而是最大化投资者收益。
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