Decision will give indication whether iPhone maker will have to pay more than €13bn in tax
Apple’s Irish tax affairs return to the spotlight on Thursday as an advocate general at the European Court of Justice issues a key opinion on whether the iPhone maker must pay the Republic more than €13 billion in tax. Photograph: John Thys/AFP
That would mark the final chapter of the world’s biggest antitrust case, which found its way in May to the EU’s highest court, almost a decade after the commission started investigating how the iPhone maker pays tax in the Republic, home to its main subsidiaries outside the US.Spotify’s zero-royalty plan tells musicians their work is worthless
The commission’s view was that valuable intellectual property behind Apple products lay inside the Irish branches of ASI and AOE, meaning that most of the profits were taxable by Revenue in Dublin. Apple, on the other hand, argued it was held outside the branches – and ultimately controlled from group headquarters, in Cupertino, California.
However, senior counsel for Apple, Daniel Beard, told the court that Apple has been paying €20 billion in tax to the US on the same profits in the decade to 2014 that the commission argues was owed to the Irish exchequer.
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