Apple has won its appeal against an EU order to pay Ireland $15bn in back taxes, after Europe’s second-highest court rejected the bloc’s claims that the tax breaks were an illegal subsidy.
Apple has won its appeal against an EU order to pay Ireland $15bn in back taxes, after Europe’s second-highest court rejected the bloc’s claims that the tax breaks were an illegal subsidy.
The case stems from a 2016 European Commission ruling that Ireland had breached the EU‘s state-aid rules by giving Apple illegal tax benefits for more than a decade.
The EU‘s General Court on Wednesday annulled the decision because the Commission hadn’t shown “to the requisite legal standard” that Apple had received an unfair advantage.
