Earlier this month, Apple was ordered to pay €14bn in back taxes to Ireland, following a long-standing legal battle with the European Commission. The unexpected financial windfall is set to play ...

Ireland and Apple, which say the correct amount of tax was paid, fought the commission on the matter and in July 2020 the General Court of the European Union annulled the decision.

Ireland is Apple's base for the whole of its non-US sales, and was at the center of a decade-long tax dispute between Apple and the EU. On January 23, 2025, Micheal Martin became Ireland's ...

The EU head office said that Ireland granted such lavish tax breaks to Apple that the company's effective corporate tax rate on its European profits dropped from 1 percent in 2003 to a mere 0.005 ...

Out of thousands of fans at Belsonic in Belfast, Anna and Maisie said they couldn't believe they were chosen to perform Charli XCX's iconic apple dance.

The commission’s original case was that Ireland had illegally favoured Apple by doing two special tax deals in 1991 and 2007, representing what it said was illegal State aid.

Apple tax bonanza hands Ireland political, reputational headache. By Padraic Halpin and Conor Humphries. September 10, 2024 3:49 PM UTC Updated September 10, 2024 The Apple Inc. logo ...

Apple has been ordered to pay €13 billion ($14.4 billion) of back taxes to the Irish state, in a court ruling that ended a decade-long fight between Europe and the big tech company.. In a ...

Key Background. In 2016, the European Commission—the EU’s executive body—ordered Ireland to collect around $14.5 billion in unpaid taxes from Apple, after a two-year investigation found the ...

An EU court order this week that Apple pay Ireland 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) presents the government with opportunities to address pressing infrastructure, housebuilding and capital project ...

A second experienced figure disagrees, witheringly comparing the Apple tax case to Northern Ireland: something “that some people are extremely interested in, but most people don’t give a shite”.

Apple has been ordered to pay back €13 billion ($14.4 billion) worth of tax to Ireland by the European Court of Justice. Two of its subsidiaries illegally received tax benefits between 1991 and ...