We return once again to the controversial case between Apple, the European Union and Ireland, and it is that the policy of fees and taxes to Apple in Ireland borders on the immoral and exceeds the limits of fair trade, so the European Union decided to take action in the face of such favorable treatment, ensuring that Apple would pay in Europe all the taxes that it had stopped paying for years. Tim Cook did not like the strategy at all, to such an extent that they are already preparing the appeal to avoid paying the tax by the European UnionIreland, meanwhile, remains silent on the matter.
As you know, Apple was urged in August 2016 to pay no less than 13 billion euros as a result of investigations carried out in Ireland, a country where Apple was paying around 1% and that it was using the platform to avoid paying taxes in the rest of the countries of the European Union, where he did not receive any favorable treatment and had to go through the cashier in a much more painful way. Apple's General Counsel told Reuters yesterday that a long legal battle will begin in this regard:
The European Commission cannot attack the freedom of Ireland to impose its tax policies, it is going too far, in fact, there are no references to such a measure throughout the history of the European Union.
It is curious how Apple, to defend its position, alleges the freedom of Ireland to handle its own taxes, totally throwing balls out and dropping that they have little or nothing to do with it. So Apple is not going to give up easily and will stand up to none other than the European CommissionWe do not know how the matter will end, but it is clear that Apple is going to have a hard time scratching something.