The world's most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.
They reveal how Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its controversial Irish tax practices by actively shopping around for a tax haven.
It then moved the firm holding most of its untaxed offshore cash, now $252bn, to the Channel Island of Jersey.
The European Commission calculated the rate of tax for one of Apple's Irish companies for one year had been just 0.005%.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2013: "We pay all the taxes we owe.
In fact, our payments to Ireland increased significantly and over the last three years we've paid $1.5bn in tax there.".
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