苹果：遣返全部海外现金， 为美国贡献3500亿美元（新闻稿全文）

苹果：将遣返全部海外现金

为美国贡献3500亿美元

北京时间18日早间苹果公司发布新闻，宣布一系列举措，以迎接根据去年年底通过的税改法案即将到来的减税。

最大的消息是，该公司未来5年将为美国经济做出逾3500亿美元的“直接贡献”，尽管尚不清楚该公司将如何达到这一数字。

该公司还承诺，将创造2万个新工作岗位，并建设一个新园区，主要用于客户支持。

苹果表示，计划将囤积在海外的现金遣返回国，预计将为此缴纳约380亿美元的税款。根据新的遣返税率15.5%计算，这意味着该公司将把囤积在海外的2500亿美元现金几乎全部汇回美国。

苹果还表示，计划未来5年投入逾300亿美元，用于资本支出。其中大约100亿美元将投资在美国的数据中心。

该公司还计划扩大去年创立的先进制造基金的规模，从10亿美元增至50亿美元。

据媒体报道，苹果还宣布，将在未来数月向全球大多数员工发放2500美元的限制股票奖金。

苹果CEO蒂姆-库克在发给员工的一份邮件中表示，发放奖金表明了他对“苹果未来充满信心”，所有部门的全职和兼职员工都能够得到奖金。库克还表示，到今年年底，苹果将把每名员工的慈善捐款配捐比例增至两倍（即员工捐款后，公司再捐两倍金额），上限为1万美元。

以下为苹果公司网站刚刚发布的新闻稿全文：

PRESS RELEASE

January 17, 2018

Apple accelerates US investment and job creation                

$350 Billion Contribution to US Economy Over Next Five Years

Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a new set of investments to build on its commitment to support the American economy and its workforce, concentrated in three areas where Apple has had the greatest impact on job creation: direct employment by Apple, spending and investment with Apple’s domestic suppliers and manufacturers, and fueling the fast-growing app economy which Apple created with iPhone and the App Store. Apple is already responsible for creating and supporting over 2 million jobs across the United States and expects to generate even more jobs as a result of the initiatives being announced today.

Combining new investments and Apple’s current pace of spending with domestic suppliers and manufacturers — an estimated $55 billion for 2018 — Apple’s direct contribution to the US economy will be more than $350 billion over the next five years, not including Apple’s ongoing tax payments, the tax revenues generated from employees’ wages and the sale of Apple products.

Planned capital expenditures in the US, investments in American manufacturing over five years and a record tax payment upon repatriation of overseas profits will account for approximately $75 billion of Apple’s direct contribution.

“Apple is a success story that could only have happened in America, and we are proud to build on our long history of support for the US economy,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We believe deeply in the power of American ingenuity, and we are focusing our investments in areas where we can have a direct impact on job creation and job preparedness. We have a deep sense of responsibility to give back to our country and the people who help make our success possible.”

Apple, already the largest US taxpayer, anticipates repatriation tax payments of approximately $38 billion as required by recent changes to the tax law. A payment of that size would likely be the largest of its kind ever made.

Apple will spend an estimated $55 billion with US suppliers and manufacturers in 2018.            

Growing Apple’s US Operations

Apple expects to invest over $30 billion in capital expenditures in the US over the next five years and create over 20,000 new jobs through hiring at existing campuses and opening a new one. Apple already employs 84,000 people in all 50 states.

The company plans to establish an Apple campus in a new location, which will initially house technical support for customers. The location of this new facility will be announced later in the year.

Over $10 billion of Apple’s expanded capital expenditures will be investments in data centers across the US. Over the last decade, Apple has invested billions of dollars in data centers and co-located facilities in seven US states, including North Carolina, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and a recently announced project in Iowa.

Today, Apple is breaking ground on a new facility in downtown Reno, which will support its existing Nevada facilities.

All of Apple’s US facilities, including offices, retail stores and data centers, are powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources like solar, wind and micro-hydro power, which Apple generates or purchases from local projects. The new campus announced today will also be powered entirely by green energy.

Investing in Apple’s Domestic Suppliers and Manufacturing Partners

Building on the initial success of the Advanced Manufacturing Fund announced last spring, Apple is increasing the size of the fund from $1 billion to $5 billion. The fund was established to support innovation among American manufacturers and help others establish a presence in the US. It is already backing projects with leading manufacturers in Kentucky and rural Texas.

Apple works with over 9,000 American suppliers — large and small businesses in all 50 states — and each of Apple’s core products relies on parts or materials made in the US or provided by US-based suppliers.

Preparing Students for the App Economy

Apple, which has a 40-year history in education, also plans to accelerate its efforts across the US in support of coding education as well as programs focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM).

The iOS app economy has created more than 1.6 million jobs in the US and generated $5 billion in revenue for American app developers in 2017. With demand for coding skills stronger than ever, today there are more than 500,000 unfilled programming-related positions across the country, and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million more software development jobs than applicants qualified to fill them.

To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy-to-learn coding language called Swift, the free Swift Playgrounds app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K-12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country. Over 100,000 students and teachers have also attended coding classes at Apple retail stores.

Apple will expand these initiatives and add new programs to support teachers and teacher training. The company is also increasing funding for its ConnectED program, so students in historically underserved communities have a chance to learn app coding skills and enjoy other benefits of technology in the classroom.

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2018年1月17日

苹果加速在美国的投资和创造就业机会。

未来5年，将为美国经济贡献3500亿美元。

加州库比蒂诺市——苹果公司今天宣布了一项新的投资基础上的承诺来支持美国经济和劳动力,集中在三个领域苹果公司对就业影响最大的:苹果,直接就业支出和投资与苹果的国内供应商和制造商,并推动经济快速增长的应用创建的苹果公司iPhone和app Store。苹果公司已经负责在全美创造和支持超过200万个工作岗位，并期望在今天宣布的计划中创造更多的就业机会。

苹果在美国供应商和制造商的支出：2018年估计为 - 550亿美元； 未来五年，苹果直接对美国经济的贡献将超过3500亿美元在未来五年, 这其中并未包括苹果所缴纳税收（员工工资和苹果产品销售相关税收）。

在美国预计的资本性支出、和海外利润汇回的创纪录税收，意味苹果大约为美国经济直接贡献750亿美元。

苹果首席执行官蒂姆•库克(Tim Cook)表示:

“苹果是一个成功的故事，只有在美国才会发生。我们很自豪地为美国经济提供了长期的支持。”“我们坚信美国人的创造力，我们将投资集中在能够直接影响就业和工作准备的领域。”我们有强烈的责任感，要回馈我们的国家和帮助我们取得成功的人。

苹果已经是美国最大的纳税人，根据税法最近的变化，它预计将支付大约380亿美元的海外利润遣返税款。这种规模的税款可能是有史以来规模最大的一次。

2018年，苹果给美国供应商和制造商的支付预计550亿美元。

扩大苹果公司在美国的业务规模

苹果公司预计，未来5年将在美国超过300亿美元的资本支出，并通过在现有校园招聘并开设新岗位创造超过20,000个新岗位。目前，苹果已经在全美50个州雇佣了84,000名员工。

该公司计划在新地点建立一个苹果公司园区，将为客户提供技术支持。这个新设施的位置将在今年晚些时候公布。

此外，将有超过100亿美元的资本支出用于在美国各地的数据中心进行投资。

过去十年里，苹果公司在美国7个州(包括北卡罗来纳州、俄勒冈州、内华达州、亚利桑那州和爱荷华州最近宣布的一个项目)投资了数十亿美元的数据中心和合作设施。

今天，苹果公司在雷诺市中心的一个新工厂动工，这将支持其现有的内华达设施。

苹果在美国的所有设施，包括办公室、零售店和数据中心，都采用了100%的可再生能源，如太阳能、风能和微型水力发电，这些都是苹果从当地项目中产生或购买的。今天宣布的新校区也将完全由绿色能源驱动。

投资苹果的国内供应商和制造合作伙伴

基于去年春天宣布的先进制造基金的初步成功，苹果公司将基金的规模从10亿美元增加到50亿美元。该基金的成立是为了支持美国制造商的创新，并帮助其他公司在美国建立业务。它已经在支持肯塔基州和得克萨斯州农村地区领先制造商的项目。

苹果在美国的所有50个州都有9000多家美国供应商，包括大型和小型企业。苹果的每一个核心产品都依赖于美国制造的零部件或材料，或由美国供应商提供。

大力培养编程应用学生

拥有40年教育历史的苹果公司，也计划加快在美国的努力，以支持编程教育以及专注于科学、技术、工程、艺术和数学(STEAM)的项目。

iOS应用经济在美国创造了160多万个工作岗位，并在2017年为美国应用开发者创造了50亿美元的收入。由于对编程技能的需求比以往任何时候都更强，现在全国有超过50万个与编程相关的职位空缺，美国劳工统计局预测，到2020年，软件开发岗位需求将比合格申请者多出140万个。

为提高学生的编程序技能, 协助更多的人能够胜任软件开发工作，苹果公司创建了一个名为迅速的强大而易于掌握的编程语言Swift； 这是一个免费快速应用的课程, 其应用发展迅速； 该课程面向数以百万计的 k - 12学校在校学生、夏令营和全国领先的社区学院。目前，有超过10万名学生和教师也参加了苹果零售店的编码课程。

苹果将扩大这些举措，并增加新的项目来支持教师和教师培训。该公司还在为其对接的项目增加资金，因此那些曾经面临服务不足的社区的学生将有机会学习应用程序编码技能，并在课堂上享受科技带来的其他好处。