Apple loses court battle over €13bn tax bill - should you invest?

The case against Apple was brought by the European Commission and ends an eight-year dispute

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Apple has been in a long-running legal battle
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Apple has been told to pay €13bn in unpaid taxes in Ireland by Europe’s top court.

The move puts an end to an eight-year legal battle over whether the tech company received “illegal” tax breaks in Ireland that gave it an unfair competitive advantage. 

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Chris Newlands

Chris is a freelance journalist, and was previously an editor and correspondent at the Financial Times as well as the business and money editor at The i Newspaper. He is also the author of the Virgin Money Maker, the personal finance guide published by Virgin Books, and has written for the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, South China Morning Post, TimeOut, Barron's and The Guardian. He is a graduate in Economics.