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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by NoboruWataya on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:08AM (#38205952)
> there are a set of rules to avoid a race to the bottom in term of taxation

No there aren't, or at least there weren't prior to the 15% that was recently agreed. Taxation generally is not an EU competence.

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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by axus on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:29AM (#38206226)
But fining Apple and Google is!
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Re:Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B E... by sgjohnson on Thursday November 09, 2023 @01:21PM (#38208699)
> Taxation generally is not an EU competence.

With the sole exception of VAT and customs duties.

Corporation tax is a matter of internal revenue and none of EUs business at all. Well, now it apparently is.

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