Ireland’s government has shrugged off calls to say how it would spend €13bn in back taxes from Apple, a fiscal windfall to which it devoted millions of euros in legal fees to avoid receiving.
In the conclusion to a decade-long regulatory battle, the European Court of Justice ruled against Ireland on Tuesday, confirming that it had handed Apple an illegal sweetheart deal giving the US tech group an ultra-low tax rate.
Ireland now has to accept the cash, despite spending $10mn on legal fees to claim that it had given Apple, one of its biggest taxpayers, no special treatment.
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