{"id":51585,"date":"2020-07-15T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=51585"},"modified":"2020-07-15T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:17:03","slug":"apple-beats-the-eu-for-now-and-the-eu-begins-to-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/15\/apple-beats-the-eu-for-now-and-the-eu-begins-to-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple beats the EU &#8211; for now &#8211; and the EU begins to fight back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet was not good news for tax justice campaigners:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EUGeneralCourt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EUGeneralCourt<\/a> annuls the decision taken by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EU_Commission?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EU_Commission<\/a> regarding the Irish <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TaxRulings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TaxRulings<\/a> in favour of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Apple?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Apple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Apple?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Apple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EUCommission?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EUCommission<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StateAid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StateAid<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KoF6r1n82S\">pic.twitter.com\/KoF6r1n82S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EU Court of Justice (@EUCourtPress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EUCourtPress\/status\/1283326636348379137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u00a0has won the right not to tax Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The EU's attempt to beat tax abuse using competition law has failed, at least for now (an appeal is possible, I think).<\/p>\n<p>But the EU has not given up. As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4068b83a-2c64-43e9-b82a-0b77c454164b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FT noted a few days ago<\/a>, it is now planning to use a Treaty route (article 116 for the geeks) to overcome the objections of small member states (like Ireland) to the imposition of tax reforms necessary to create a level playing field in the internal market. The critical point is that this does not require unanimous support: qualified majorities will be enough.<\/p>\n<p>I am not pretending this morning is good news. But if a better solution is found maybe that's no bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet was not good news for tax justice campaigners: #EUGeneralCourt annuls the decision taken by the @EU_Commission regarding the Irish #TaxRulings in favour of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/07\/15\/apple-beats-the-eu-for-now-and-the-eu-begins-to-fight-back\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,64,5,10,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-corporation-tax","category-ireland","category-tax-avoidance","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}