There’s quite a peculiar situation underway in Europe, where Ireland doesn’t want to collect a mighty €13 billion ($13.6 billion) tax bill from Apple, and Apple certainly doesn’t want to pay it. But the European Commission, the EU’s cross-border regulator and antitrust enforcer, issued a judgment in August determining that Ireland gave Apple special treatment and the US tech giant owed the big bill for improperly underpaying its taxes all the way back to 2003.
Today both Apple and Ireland have come out strongly against the decision, which they intend to appeal against. Ireland’s position is that Apple didn’t receive any form of improper state aid because it was merely exploiting an offer available to all international companies (Ireland d...
via The Verge
