The European Union has ordered Apple to bear rough $ 14.3 billion ( 13 billion euros ) to cover back taxes the EU says is owed to Ireland . But Apple is putting up a fight and said the taxation bank note “ resist world and common sense ” in a new assertion to a European court this morning .
Apple , which has a European central office in Ireland for tax purpose , was originally ordered to pay the back taxes in 2016 after the company paid a revenue enhancement pace of just 0.005 % in the country for 2014 . But Apple ’s lawyers take a firm stand that the EU is only try on to get “ headlines by quoting tiny numbers . ”
“ The Commission contends that essentially all of Apple ’s profits from all of its sale outside the Americas must be attributed to two limb in Ireland , ” one of Apple ’s many attorney on the casing , Daniel Beard , told the EU General Court on Tuesday , according toReuters .
Apple CEO Tim Cook on September 10, 2019Photo: (Getty Images)
Beard reportedly repoint out that Apple ’s products , from the iPhone to its App Store , were all develop in the U.S. and that trying to bond profits from elsewhere in Europe to the Ireland headquarters would be unjust . Last year Apple pay $ 0.00 in Union taxation in the U.S. despite make $ 11.2 billion in profit .
Beard said that if the European Court wanted to claw back profits from Apple they should “ change the international revenue enhancement system , ” a proposal that would come along absurd on its face because even the EU has limits to what it can accomplish alfresco of Europe .
Ireland is on Apple ’s side in this contravention , for the most part because it likes being a taxation haven for large multinational corporations .
“ The Commission ’s decision is basically blemished , ” Paul Gallagher , a attorney for Ireland reportedly told the court today .
Apple did not respond to a petition for input sent early Tuesday .
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