Apple expects to pay $38 Billion tax on repatriated cash
18 January 2018 |
10:52 am
Apple said it will bring hundreds of billions of overseas dollars back to the U.S., pay about $38 billion in taxes on the money and spend tens of billions on domestic jobs, manufacturing and data centres in the coming years.
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