Ireland claims EU breaching sovereignty in Apple tax ruling

Ireland set out its arguments on Monday against a European Commission ruling that tech firm Apple should pay billions in back-taxes to Dublin, claiming the EU executive arm has interfered in state sovereignty. "The Commission has exceeded its powers and interfered with national tax sovereignty. "The Commission has no competence, under State aid rules, unilaterally to substitute its own view of the geographic scope and extent of the Member State’s tax jurisdiction for those of the Member State itself," said Ireland's Department of Finance in a three-page submission outlining its main arguments in the case.

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