Much was said about the subject in its day, but in case you do not know it, we will give you a brief summary: Ireland offered Apple, by mutual agreement, a derisory tax system in order to attract capital as a benefit to Ireland, and to be able to distribute for Europe how I benefit Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),.
This fraud of law that the European Union and the group of countries that comprise it did not like at all, led to a series of sanctions. After the verdict of more competent judicial authorities, Apple has decided to undertake the payment of the evaded taxes this week.
This information was sent by the Financial Times this very morning, finally the issue that has been dragging on since 2016 seems to have an end, despite the fact that Apple disagreed with the final decision taken by international organizations. In fact, Tim Cook warned that they would continue to fight judicially against the resolution. On the contrary, This week it has been confirmed that Apple will proceed to pay those 13.000 million euros that it could have evaded through the ridiculous tax that Ireland provided to carry out its activities within European territory. It is said soon, but that enormous amount of money could have been effectively dedicated to social policy.
It is an important step in order to stabilize the situation at the level of taxes that Apple maintains in Europe, in addition, due to this movement, the Cupertino company has announced that it will move its headquarters to the Island of Jersey. In short, this Treasury thing generally works better than any other type of organization, money calls money, so it is not surprising that this has happened with the matter of Ireland, the question now is ... Will more big companies go down? We remember that not only Apple has benefited from this unfortunate move.