Ruling is a fillip for European Commission efforts to clamp down on ‘sweetheart’
tax deals
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Apple has lost a high-profile, €13bn (£11bn) Irish tax battle with Brussels in a
decision that will bolster the European Commission’s efforts to clamp down on
favourable “sweetheart” tax deals for multinationals.
The European court of justice (ECJ) ruling, which had been eagerly awaited,
comes after years of legal wrangling over whether the European Commission was
right to demand in 2016 that €13bn in “illegal” tax breaks for Apple should be
repaid because it gave the iPhone maker an unfair advantage.
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