Long-running legal battle began in 2016 after bloc’s competition chief said iPhone maker had benefited from unfair tax breaks in Ireland
The EU’s top court will rule whether the European Commission was right to demand that €13bn in “illegal” tax breaks for Apple should be repaid, in a judgment likely to have far-reaching effects on “sweetheart” deals for large multinationals.
In a positive sign for the commission, however, last autumn a senior lawyer at the court recommended that Fiona Scott Morton, a professor of economics at Yale University, now working at the Bruegel thinktank in Brussels, said competition to offer tax breaks for multinationals was an unsolved problem: “That makes the internal market less fair and makes for distorted choices on the part of lots of players. So I think it’s a problem.”but withdrew from the post within hours
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