Apple CEO: ‘We’re not a tax dodger’

Published August 15, 2016 2:27pm ET



Apple CEO Tim Cook is pushing back against claims that the tech business is unpatriotic or fraudulent for keeping hundreds of billions of dollars in earnings overseas.

“We are the largest taxpayer in the United States. And so we’re not a tax dodger,” Cook said in a lengthy interview published by the Washington Post over the weekend. “We pay our share and then some.”

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