Apple wins tax battle against EU, avoids $15B fine

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. “The General Court considers that the commission did not prove, in its alternative line of…

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