EU Takes Ireland To Court For Not Claiming Apple Tax Windfall (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday October 4, 2017 @08:00AM from the holding-accountable dept.

Philip Blenkinsop, reporting for Reuters: The European Commission said on Wednesday it was taking Ireland to the European Court of Justice for its failure to recover up to 13 billion euros ($15.3 billion) of tax due from Apple, a move labeled as "regrettable" by Dublin. The Commission ordered the U.S. tech giant in August 2016 to pay the unpaid taxes as it ruled the firm had received illegal state aid, one of a number of deals the EU has targeted between multinationals and usually smaller EU states. "More than one year after the Commission adopted this decision, Ireland has still not recovered the money," EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said, adding that Dublin had not even sought a portion of the sum.

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Re:Well, maybe Ireland will leave the EU next? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-04 08:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Hey, yeah, let's argue about this. I can call you something like "idiot", and then people can pick sides and we can all be angry at each other.
Re:Well, maybe Ireland will leave the EU next? by CaptainDork · 2017-10-04 08:52 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm in.
I think we should hitlerize the nazimistic terroristic pedophiliac child-endangerment side of the argument and stuff.

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