European Court Orders Apple to Pay €13 Billion in Taxes
The European Court of Justice has ruled against Apple in a decade-long dispute over the company's tax payments in Ireland. The court upheld a 2016 European Commission decision that Ireland must pay Apple up to €13 billion in unpaid taxes.
The Commission alleged that Apple had received "unlawful" tax benefits from Ireland for two decades. Apple and Ireland appealed the Commission's decision, and in 2020, the EU Court of First Instance sided with the American company. However, the Commission appealed the decision, and the case was referred to the European Court of Justice, CNBC reports .
"The European Commission is trying to change the rules retroactively and ignores the fact that, as required by international tax law, our income was already taxed in the US."
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The Irish government said the Apple case "involved a matter which is now of purely historical significance", adding that Dublin's position had always been that it "does not provide preferential tax treatment to any company or taxpayer".
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