Apple asked to pay Ireland $14 billion in unpaid taxes by European court

ECJ upholds European Commission decision from 2016 – so Ireland must collect total it didn’t want to recover!

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has asked Apple to pay $14 billion in unpaid taxes to Ireland, in a ruling dating back to 2016. The global tech giant had been accused of using mechanisms that helped reduce its Irish tax bill. The interesting twist is that the Irish government

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