Top European court to hear appeal in €13bn Apple tax case via IrishTimesBiz
The battle over whether Apple should pay €13.1 billion in additional tax to Ireland goes to another round on Tuesday as a grand chamber sitting of the European Union’s highest court hears an appeal in the case. Photograph: LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty ImagesThe judicial battle over whether Apple should pay €13.1 billion in additional tax to Ireland goes to another round on Tuesday as a grand chamber sitting of the European Union’s highest court hears an appeal in the case.
The European Commission ordered the Irish Government to recover the additional tax from Apple in 2016, arguing that the Government gave a sweetheart deal that afforded an unfair competitive advantage to the tech giant, contrary to EU rules. But Apple and the Irish Government successfully argued that this was not the case and defeated the Commission’s case in the EU’s second-highest court in 2020, which found that the executive had not demonstrated that Ireland undercharged Apple for tax.
The Commission is now making a final attempt to overturn the finding in an appeal to be heard by the ECJ’s grand chamber of judges, that will hear arguments from lawyers representing the Commission, the Government of Ireland, and Apple.
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