A lower tribunal which sided with Apple in its challenge against a 13-billion-euro ($14 billion) EU tax order made a series of legal errors and should review the case again, an adviser to Europe's top court said on Thursday, in a potential setback for the iPhone maker.
The Apple logo is shown atop an Apple store at a shopping mall in La Jolla, California, U.S., December 17, 2019, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoThe tax case against Apple was part of EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager's crackdown against deals between multinationals and EU countries which regulators saw as unfair state aid.
The General Court in 2020 upheld Apple's challenge, saying that regulators had not met the legal standard to show Apple had enjoyed an unfair advantage. "The judgment of the General Court on 'tax rulings' adopted by Ireland in relation to Apple should be set aside," he said in a non-binding opinion.
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