Apple has set up a court battle with European Union competition watchdogs who ordered Ireland to claw back a record €13bn ($13.6bn) in unpaid taxes from the iPhone maker. The US tech giant said on Monday it formally appealed the EU’s August 30 decision to the bloc’s General Court in Luxembourg, as the European Commission and Ireland separately published details of their own arguments in the case. The EU "took unilateral action and retroactively changed the rules, disregarding decades of Irish tax law, US tax law, as well as global consensus on tax policy, that everyone has relied on", Apple said in a statement after filing its court appeal. In an order that reverberated across the Atlantic, the EU slapped Apple with the multibillion-euro bill, saying Ireland granted unfair deals that reduced the company’s effective corporate tax rate. The US Treasury said the EU was making itself a "supranational tax authority" that could threaten global tax reform efforts. Priority status Apple’s a...
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