In article , Jim Polaski
wrote:


As long as Apple isn't doing anything illegal, they would be doing their
shareholders a disservice if they were paying more taxes than legally
required.

The same goes for Trump BTW.
What kind of an idiot doesn't try to reduce his taxes LEGALLY by using
every line in the tax code to his advantage?

Every single one of us in USA does it every year.
Key word LEGALLY.

yep.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Learned_Hand
Billings Learned Hand (January 27, 1872 * August 18, 1961), usually
called simply Learned Hand, was an American judge famous as an avid
supporter of free speech and for applying economic reasoning to
American tort law. He is noted as one of the most influential
American judges to have never served on the Supreme Court of the
United States.

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€ Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low
as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best
pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase
one's taxes.
€ Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809, 810-11 (2d Cir. 1934).

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€ Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister
in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.
Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes
any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced
exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of
morals is mere cant.
€ Commissioner v. Newman, 159 F2d 848 (1947).