Earlier this week, Apple made headlines when it filed accounts for its non-American business through its Irish subsidiary Apple Operations International and revealed the Cork-based company had paid $250 billion to its US parent. The amount comprised dividends of $196.7 billion during the tax year ended on September 28, 2019, and $51.8 so far this year. The extraction of profits from the iPhone maker’s Irish unit saw another massive jump, after dividends paid to California-based Apple Inc already increased from $1.5 billion in 2017 to $68 billion in 2018. As previously reported, even before the latest filing, Apple was leading…

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