Sure, but Ireland doesn’t get the money, the EU does, so it’s not actually corre...

scandox · 2024-09-10T08:46:35 1725957995

Ireland gets the money. The EU is making Apple pay us. And yes we didn't want it - mainly for reputational reasons and partly because our argument was "we never done it".

techpression · 2024-09-10T08:59:27 1725958767

I stand corrected then, thanks. I was under the assumption this is like most legal wins for the EU that it goes into the pot to lower member fees.

dathinab · 2024-09-10T16:58:09 1725987489

oversimplified you can think of it as

Ireland is required to collect the taxes it always should have collected

(but waved to get a competitive advantage for attracting tech giants and giving them in turn a competitive advantage over EU based competition)

as a side note tax benefits to attract companies aren't perse illegal but what Ireland did went far beyond what is healthy/acceptable for the EU