Giovanni Pitruzzella, Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, the EU’s highest pillar of principle, said the decision to overturn Apple’s €13 billion fine was wrong.
This case has been going on for several years. Apple initially agreed to pay a €13 billion fine for failing to pay taxes in Ireland from 2003 to 2014. Tim Cook called the decision “complete political nonsense.” End date January 3, 2017, Apple paid nothing.
The company filed an appeal to the EU General Court (the second highest court in the EU) and received it in 2020.
Now the European Court’s chief lawyer has said the ruling contains a number of errors and should be overturned.
Considering that in this case the final decision will be up to the lower court, it will most likely listen to Pitruzzelli’s position. The European Court’s decision was made the following year. [Financial Times]
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