“Ireland’s finance minister said the European Commission’s demand that Dublin retroactively collect 13 billion euros in taxes from Apple was unjustified and not Dublin’s job, in an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ) newspaper,” Reuters reports.
“Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said the tax rules from which Apple benefited had been available to all and not tailored for the U.S. technology giant,” Reuters reports. “They did not violate European or Irish law, he added.”
Reuters reports, “‘We are not the global tax collector for everybody else,’ the paper quoted him as saying.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Exactly.
Is Ireland its own country or merely a vassal state to a quasi-governmental political confederation that’s already been hit with one very significant defection?
The EU’s retroactive tax grab is a farce.
Anyone who decides to set up a business in a European Union member country today is insane. — MacDailyNews, August 30, 2016
SEE ALSO:
Apple close to deal protecting Ireland in fight over EU tax grab – August 11, 2017
Ireland seeks custodian for Apple $15.2 billion in back taxes as collection nears – July 22, 2017
EU Commissioner Vestager: Ireland ‘taking too long’ to recover Apple tax – May 19, 2017
EU’s hypocritical Margrethe Vestager going after Apple while backing Madeira tax avoidance scheme – February 14, 2017
Apple has missed the deadline to pay $13.9 billion to Ireland in illegal tax benefits – January 31, 2017
Apple CFO Maestri: What the EC is doing here is a disgrace for European citizens, it should be ashamed’ – December 19, 2016
Apple’s EU tax nemesis Margrethe Vestager takes aim at other U.S. companies’ offshore profits – September 19, 2016
The ‘Brexit-Apple’ connection: What in the world was Margrethe Vestager thinking? – September 12, 2016
EU ministers line up to take tax bites out of Apple – September 12, 2016
Former EU competition commissioner: Vestager claim that Apple owes back taxes an incorrect use of EU law – September 2, 2016
Irish government to fight EU on Apple tax – September 2, 2016
Treasury accuses EU of trying to steal U.S. tax revenues with Apple decision – September 1, 2016
Irish residents opposed to EU’s tax demand of Apple – September 1, 2016
Apple Inc. pushes back against EU tax grab – September 1, 2016
Apple may repatriate billions of dollars next year after new U.S. President takes office – September 1, 2016
U.S. tax code allows for dramatic retaliation against EU overreach in Apple case – September 1, 2016
Apple CEO Tim Cook on EU tax demand: ‘No one did anything wrong here and Ireland is being picked on… It is total political crap’ – September 1, 2016
U.S. Treasury: The European Commission’s retroactive tax demands on Apple are unfair – August 30, 2016
EU demands Apple pay massive $14.5 billion in taxes plus interest – August 30, 2016
U.S. government warns EU: Do not hit Apple with a massive back tax bill – or else – August 25, 2016
Screw the EU!!!!!
Death to The New World Order.
Taking us all the way back to the 70’s eh, bottwipe?
You’re only a decade off this time, Racebaiter, usually it’s several centuries.
Actually not. HW didn’t invent the concept. My point was, here you are dragging out stuff from decades ago. The right wing, late to the game.
Why did they wait so many fricking years to start belly aching about back taxes. EU are mere opportunists perhaps? When there is actual talk of repatriation all the sudden they cry? The legitimate way, I think, would be to call to light to the problem then go forward with a legit solution. I see these EU anuses as bullies going for a last minute money grab.
Seldom do prosecutors pounce on a lawbreaker before amassing incontrovertible evidence. That takes time.
You are evidently not familiar with The Inquisition…but, of course, people who attempt to gain honor from osmosis from relatives seldom understand history.
you are one god-awful human being.
Inquisition?
I may be new here but you sir are not living in the real world.
Torquemada Mueller is quite real, sonny.
You are one sad individual… or actually a bott… as in bottwipe.
Does using events that happened hundreds of years ago, neigh, thousands of years ago give you some kind of legitimacy?