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Apple owes billions in Irish back taxes (theregister.com)
39 points by latexr 65 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



>"Today is a big win for European citizens and for tax justice." She said Ireland granted Apple "unlawful state aid which Ireland now has to recover. And this judgement is final." She also described the ruling as a "win for the level playing field in the Single Market."

The “level playing field” is what it’s really about. Ireland captured all of Apple’s banking in exchange for lower taxes. Ireland was happy because of the enormous liquidity, Apple was happy to save money.

The rest of the EU banks wanted Apple’s money too, but couldn’t offer the same deal. So this lawsuit.



better link now that a few threads are consolidated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498358


I believe there’s no further process for appealing this decision either


Wonder why now, maybe the EU asked them to take X off the App Store




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