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Apple Files Defense Against Back Tax Claim, Claiming Errors and Overreach

posted by on Wednesday February 22 2017, @11:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-where-do-they-pay-tax? dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Stop terraforming taxation, says Cupertino, and let us get on with it Apple has filed its defence against the European Commission's claim it owes €13bn in back taxes in Ireland.

Apple on Monday filed a defence in which it dismissed the very idea of the US$13.75/£11bn bill, calling for the total or partial annulment of the European Commission decision that set the case in motion and suggesting the Commission pay Apple's costs into the bargain.

Cupertino's argument offers 14 pleas in law that collectively assert that the EU just doesn't understand how Apple operates and thoroughly misunderstands the way it gets stuff done in Ireland.

We therefore get familiar arguments suggesting Apple need not pay tax in Ireland because the real profit-generating work happens elsewhere. Apple Ireland "carried out only routine functions and were not involved in the development and commercialisation of Apple IP which drove profits," says Plea 4.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Nerdfest on Wednesday February 22 2017, @12:11PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @12:11PM (#470123)

    EU just doesn't understand how Apple operates and thoroughly misunderstands the way it gets stuff done in Ireland

    So, basically they're taxing it wrong.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:48PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:48PM (#470183)

    I only read TFS, but is Apple seriously arguing that they were only using Ireland as a tax haven?

  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:41PM

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:41PM (#470261)

    Basically yes, and that as a nonresident company they paid off....er...paid their taxes properly to Ireland.
    Also the link in the summary seems broken as there is a missing character in the address. The link from El Reg works or just use:
    http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2017.053.01.0037.01.ENG&toc=OJ:C:2017:053:TOC [europa.eu]

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    • (Score: 1) by charon on Wednesday February 22 2017, @08:03PM

      by charon (5660) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @08:03PM (#470391) Journal
      Thank you for noting that. The submitting bot ate the "&" in that link. Fixed now.

  • (Score: 2) by tisI on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:16AM

    by tisI (5866) on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:16AM (#470577)

    "EU just doesn't understand how Apple operates and thoroughly misunderstands the way it gets stuff done in Ireland."
    "and suggesting the Commission pay Apple's costs into the bargain."

    Funny but this sounds like the same logic stream I get from my 4 year old grandson.

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