AFP, Bratislava :
Budget-squeezed EU countries will ask Brussels for their share of the billions in Irish back taxes demanded from tech giant Apple, officials said on Saturday.
The European Commission, the EU’s powerful competition regulator, last month ordered Apple to reimburse a record 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in unpaid taxes in Ireland.
As part of its historic decision, which angered Washington, the commission said other EU countries could also claim a slice of the 13 billion euros.
“If it’s legally accurate, you can be sure that as minister of finance I will take it,” Austria’s Hans Joerg Schelling said on the sidelines of two days of talks with his EU counterparts.
“We Austrians are looking at it intensively,” Schelling said at the talks in Bratislava, Slovakia, adding that other member states-including Italy-were also considering a payout.
Budget-squeezed EU countries will ask Brussels for their share of the billions in Irish back taxes demanded from tech giant Apple, officials said on Saturday.
The European Commission, the EU’s powerful competition regulator, last month ordered Apple to reimburse a record 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in unpaid taxes in Ireland.
As part of its historic decision, which angered Washington, the commission said other EU countries could also claim a slice of the 13 billion euros.
“If it’s legally accurate, you can be sure that as minister of finance I will take it,” Austria’s Hans Joerg Schelling said on the sidelines of two days of talks with his EU counterparts.
“We Austrians are looking at it intensively,” Schelling said at the talks in Bratislava, Slovakia, adding that other member states-including Italy-were also considering a payout.
