EU vs. Apple: This is behind the dispute over the Digital Markets Act

Formally, the tax dispute did not sit on the dock, but Ireland. After all, the government in Dublin had granted the US group the favorable tax conditions. Vestager calculated that from 2004 to 2014 Apple had to pay extremely low effective tax rates of around 0.005 percent for some of the wins abroad. This practice was seen as an inadmissible subsidy, since other companies did not receive the same conditions.

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