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Apple CEO Tim Cook Testifies Before Congress About Offshore Tax Havens

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Apple CEO Tim Cook is  appearing before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations  today to answer charges that his company has avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes through the use of overseas tax shelters and loopholes in the corporate tax code. An investigation by the subcommittee found that Apple has shifted tens of billions of dollars of two subsidiaries in Ireland, while claiming that neither subsidiary is a tax resident of any country.

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Sign Petition Telling Apple to Ensure Workers Are Treated Fairly

As we've written here , Apple's record-breaking success in selling iPhones, iPads and iPods have come at a terrible cost .Take a minute to sign our petition to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. Tell him to ensure that people integral to Apple’s success—workers who manufacture Apple’s  electronics—are treated fairly.

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