'The Commission decision simply ignores Irish laws.' Nigeria
The EU's tax demand, made three years ago,"defies reality and common sense," Apple's lawyer Daniel Beard told the EU's lower General Court.Lawyers for the world's biggest company faced EU officials in the Luxembourg court, challenging a decision that CEO Tim Cook slammed at the time as"total political crap" with no basis in law.
The commission's historic decision was delivered in August 2016 by Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, a shock decision that put Europe at the forefront of an emerging effort to rein in the power of America's largest technological companies. An EU lawyer pushed back at Apple and Ireland's arguments, insisting that the iPhone-maker was on the hook to pay taxes in Ireland.
The group insists that it is in the United States, where the company invests in research and development and thus creates wealth, that it must pay taxes on the revenue in question. The EU's competition supremo, Vestager, has in particular been accused by Trump of"hating" the US. He has slammed her as the"tax lady" because of the investigations and heavy fines imposed on US tech firms such as Google.
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