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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Apple lost a long-running court battle with the European Union on Tuesday, resulting in the company being forced to pay 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in back taxes to Ireland, as part of a ...

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 ...

The iPhone maker’s proposal is designed to make it cheaper and less onerous for third-party developers to direct customers ...

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 is also nearing another potential milestone: making money from a big-budget movie. F1, co-produced by Pitt’s Plan B ...

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 ...