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‘No company can have selective benefits’ – Brussels takes bite out of Apple

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The European Commission (EC) has ordered US tech giant to pay a record tax penalty of 13 billion euros to the Irish government.

Following a three-year investigation, the EC has ruled that for years Ireland enabled Apple to pay a tiny percentage of the tax that it should have.

EC Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager told euronews: “We see these 13 billion euros as unpaid taxes that, due to Irish tax rulings, allowed Apple to put a lot of their profits in a head office that only exist…
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4 Comments

  1. @eddielloyd13

    June 2, 2024 at 11:39 am

    Our government are a pack of brown envelope assholes. fg as a pack of pricks.

  2. @khriscolburn2188

    June 2, 2024 at 11:39 am

    f Apple dog ish that get hacked all the time.

  3. @indigochild9604

    June 2, 2024 at 11:39 am

    Sweet

  4. @qpae123

    June 2, 2024 at 11:39 am

    So Ireland washed Aplle's money and now wants a slice too ? Would not be more correct that those countries like Ireland and other financial paradises to pay penalities to the rest of the World ?:))

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