Cupertino mayor claims he was surrounded/escorted out by Apple security personnel in row over city taxes<div class="feat-image">
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<p>[UPDATE: Cupertino mayor Barry Chang is refuting the claims made by The Guardian, saying that he never said the words quoted in the article: “I was shocked and dismayed to see a recent article quoting me with words I never used and describing situations that never happened,” he said in a
statement on the Cupertino city website.]</p>
<p>Cupertino mayor Barry Chang has accused Apple of ‘abusing’ its home city by failing to contribute to much-needed public projects, and claims that he was ‘surrounded’ by security and escorted off the premises when he tried to discuss traffic congestion.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Apple is not willing to pay a dime. They’re making profit, and they should share the responsibility for our city, but they won’t. They abuse us.</span></p>
<p>However, the <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/05/apple-taxes-cupertino-mayor-infrastructure-plan" target="_blank">
Guardian[/url] notes that Apple paid $9.2M in city taxes in 2012/13 …</p>
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