EU regulator says Apple must be on hook for €14.three billion tax invoice

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Apple has been dealt a blow in its €14.three billion tax dispute with Brussels after an adviser to the EU’s prime courtroom mentioned an earlier ruling over its enterprise in Eire must be shelved.

Giovanni Pitruzzella, advocate-general of the European Courtroom of Justice, the EU’s highest courtroom, mentioned on Thursday {that a} landmark choice quashing the EU’s order for Apple to pay €14.three billion in again taxes to Eire “must be put aside.”

Such opinions by advocates-general are non-binding however typically influential in last judgments by the EU’s prime courtroom.