Apple Ruling Highlights How EU governments Must Do More to Clean Up Murky Corporate Tax Practices
The European Commission today announced Apple has received 13 billion euros in illegal state aid from the Irish government. This decision follows the investigations on illegal state aid between the Dutch government and Starbucks, the Luxembourg government and Fiat, and the Belgian government for its ‘excess profit’ tax scheme.
Aurore Chardonnet, Oxfam EU policy advisor on inequality and tax, said: