Apple Paid $6 Billion in U.S. Corporate Income Taxes in 2012

Apple paid more in U.S. taxes last year than most companies made in total, but its tax bill could have been even higher.

The California-based company paid $6 billion in federal corporate income taxes in the 2012 fiscal year, according to a statement Apple provided to The New York Times on Friday, in which it emphasized just how much money it pays back to the federal government annually.

"In fiscal 2012 we paid $6 billion in federal corporate income taxes, which is 1 out of every 40 dollars in corporate income taxes collected by the U.S. government," Apple said in the statement.

That statement came in response to a Times story on a congressional investigation into the accounting prac…
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