Tim Cook was surprised by how much time Apple's CEO spends with tax lawyers minimizing what the company owes. Large corporations use legal strategies to pay far less than small businesses do, even though mom-and-pop stores carry a heavier tax burden.
The tax return should only be a mere summarization of a year's worth of tax planning. That's what the big companies do. And when Tim Cook took over Apple, that's one of the things he was amazed at, how much time he spends with Apple's tax lawyers so that they don't pay the taxes that the mom-and-pop stores, the small business, the medium-sized business are paying.
