An Apple logo is seen in the window of an authorised apple reseller store in Galway, Ireland August 30, 2016. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Ireland's government will this
week formally submit its appeal against the European Commission's
multi-billion-euro demand for back taxes from Apple, Finance Minister Michael
Noonan said on Tuesday.
Ireland's cabinet agreed in
September to join the iPhone maker in appealing the Commission's order that the
U.S. tech giant pay up to 13 billion euros to Dublin after ruling the firm had
received illegal state aid.
Dublin is seeking to protect a
tax regime that has attracted many multinational employers. The European
Commission decision has also angered Washington, which accuses it of trying to
grab tax revenue that should go to the United States.
"The government fundamentally disagrees with the
European Commission's analysis and the decision left no choice but to take an
appeal to the European Courts and this will be submitted tomorrow," Noonan
told a European Parliament committee in Brussels.
(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; editing by Andrew Roche)
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