Ireland is not in a hurry to cash in on Apple 13 billions of euros, so much the taxes inevase, from 2003 to 2014, calculated by the EU's Antitrust agency, which announced the 30 2016 ruling. Tax agreements between Cupertino and Ireland 'are illegal state aid, "said EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager. According to the EU Commission, the same favorable treatment is not guaranteed to other companies based in Ireland, thus supporting the allegation of anti-competitive treatment. More than a year away what has changed? Nothing. "I do not have any indication from Ireland how long it will take to cash out the amount it is entitled to," Vestager said recently. "Belgium did, as well as the Netherlands and Luxembourg have recovered unpaid taxes, we expect Ireland to do the same," concluded the EU Commissioner for Competition.
Why is paradoxically Ireland not in a hurry and interest in collecting 13 billions from Apple? For several reasons. In the European country Apple has had the 2015 tax domicile for its business in Europe. For two years, since Ireland has amended its tax regulations, Apple has moved its tax residence to Jersey across Europe, is an island of 100mila people living in the Canal Channel, but has spelled out the company : "Changes made did not reduce our tax payments to any country. In fact, our payments to Ireland have increased considerably and in the last three years we have paid $ 1,5 billions of dollars. " Additionally, in Ireland there is the European headquarters of Apple, namely at Cork headquarters working 6mila employees and leaving with 60 workers in 1980, when Steve Jobs chose the city to expand the company beyond the ocean. "Apple's innovation and investment work for over 12 thousand people across Ireland," Apple said in a press release. So those 13 billions of euro that are legally entitled to Ireland represent the equivalent of the 5 percent of GDP and almost entirely the annual budget for health. But rather to give up rather than risk losing to Apple's escape of capital and the resulting redundancy of the thousands of people the company has been providing a job in Ireland.