Apple's messy Ireland situation has ended with a €14 billion payout

Apple's tax relationship with Ireland has been making headlines for years now. 

Ever since the establishment of the so-called "sweetheart deal", which allowed Apple to pay tax that sometimes fell as low as 0.05 percent in the country, the arrangement has been raising questions.

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These questions led to the EU Commission concluding, back in 2016, that "Ireland gave illegal tax benefits to Apple worth up to €13 billion".

Well, flash forward to September 18, 2018, and the company has paid up.

Today Irish Minister of Finance @Paschald confirmed the full recovery of €14 bn of illegal aid to Apple (unpaid taxes). Good. So we can close the Court action on recovery.

— Margrethe Vestager (@vestager) September 18, 2018 Read more...

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