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Technology giant Apple AAPL, +1.65% has won its court battle with the EU over a disputed €13 billion ($15 billion) tax bill
The General Court of the European Union, one of Europe’s top courts, said the European Union Commission didn’t show sufficient evidence that Apple gained an unfair tax advantage from its Irish business.
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The Commission brought the case against Apple, arguing its tax status in Ireland amounted to state aid against EU law, but the court said it didn’t show a breach of law to the required legal standard to rule against Apple.
Wednesday’s ruling came after a lengthy appeals process against the Commission’s 2016 ruling that Ireland had given illegal tax benefits to Apple worth €13 billion.
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“The Commission didn’t succeed in showing to the requisite legal standard that there was an advantage for the purposes of Article 107(1) TFEU (a law against anticompetitive government subsidies that undermine the competitiveness of the European Union internal market),” the court said.
