Bloomberg Law
December 19, 2016, 11:51 PM UTC

Apple Fights $13.6 Billion Tax Bill as EU Lifts Lid on Case

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By Aoife White, Stephanie Bodoni and Dara Doyle, Bloomberg News

Apple Inc.has set up a court battle with European Union competition watchdogs who ordered Ireland to claw back a record 13 billion euros ($13.6 billion) in unpaid taxes from the iPhone maker.

The U.S. tech giant said Monday it formally appealed the EU’s Aug. 30 decision to the bloc’s General Court in Luxembourg, as the European Commission and Ireland separately publisheddetailsof their own arguments in the case.

The EU “took unilateral action and retroactively changed the rules, disregarding decades of Irish tax law, U.S. tax law, as ...

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