If we talk about taxes we are talking about a complicated issue ... On many occasions it is the governments themselves that delay this collection in order to attract these companies. The thing changes when the European Union comes into play, and it seems that they have been European organizations those that would have motivated Apple to end up paying the 14.300 million euros that they owed to the government of Ireland. After the jump we tell you how this whole issue related to the taxes that the government of Ireland had to have collected and that in the end have been motivated to do so by the European Union itself ...
It was already in the month of August 2016 when the Commissioner for Competition of the European Union, Margrethe Vestager, encouraged the Irish government to ask Apple for about 13.100 billion euros for uncollected taxes. This week has been when the Irish government has confirmed to Vestager that Apple would have paid this amount without problems in addition to 1.200 million euros more due to the corresponding interest for having paid out of price. Amounts that represent 4.7% of the country's GDP in 2017, so it is not understood why the Irish executive has not wanted to collect this amount until the European Union itself has suggested the collection. Well actually the idea of not collecting is motivated by the fact that Ireland is the European headquarters of many technology companies, so "help" with taxation.
Una great news for anyone who lives in the European Union. As much as we like a company like Apple, both they and any other company have to pay the taxes that correspond to them, taxes that on many occasions are collected thanks to us by the way. Hopefully the guys from Cupertino, or Ireland in this case, will not see each other again in a news like this again.