Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B EU case

Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by qnpnp on Thursday November 09, 2023 @09:41AM (#38205563)

This is an antitrust case, not a tax case. The whole point is that other firms did not benefit from the same rules.

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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by astaunton on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:36AM (#38206331)

The governments stance is that any company could have applied the same tax rules if they wished, so it was not state aid. As a side note, the "irish double sandwich" rules have changed since this

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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by qnpnp on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:54AM (#38206582)

Sure, and in that case no issue. But that is the government stance, not the EU stance.

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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by NovemberWhiskey on Thursday November 09, 2023 @11:21AM (#38207031)

There is no "EU" stance.

The disagreement is between the European Commission and the Irish government. The deciding authority here will be the European Court of Justice, after appeal from the decision of the General Court - which favored Ireland.

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