{"id":1162704,"date":"2026-08-22T07:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1162704\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:52:16","slug":"apple-reveals-eu-tax-payments-under-new-transparency-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1162704\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple reveals EU tax payments under new transparency rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FILE<\/a> FILE PHOTO – The logo of the US technology company Apple is visible at night at the Apple Store. (is associated with: \u00abApple reveals EU tax payments under new transparency rules\u00bb) Christian Charisius\/dpa <\/p>\n

Apple has for the first time disclosed how much profit it booked and tax it paid across individual European Union countries under new transparency rules. <\/p>\n

The figures for the financial year that ended in September 2025 show particularly large tax payments in Ireland, where Apple reported $17.1 billion in income tax paid. <\/p>\n

The company said the unusually high figure reflected the release of funds from an escrow account following a European Commission state-aid decision and a ruling by the European Court of Justice. <\/p>\n

Apple lost a long-running legal battle with the European Commission in September 2024 over tax advantages it received in Ireland. The commission ordered the company to pay \u20ac13 billion ($15.2 billion) in back taxes plus interest. <\/p>\n

Germany was also among the countries detailed in the report. Apple recorded a pre-tax profit of around $209 million in the country and paid $153.5 million in income tax. <\/p>\n

Its German operations generated revenue of $2.72 billion and employed 4,089 people, including more than 2,000 engineers at Apple’s European Silicon Design Centre in Munich, its largest development site in Europe. <\/p>\n

Under an EU directive on public country-by-country reporting, multinational companies with global annual revenue of more than \u20ac750 million must publicly disclose income tax information for individual countries. <\/p>\n

The figures previously had to be submitted only confidentially to tax authorities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE PHOTO – The logo of the US technology company Apple is visible at night at the Apple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1162705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1662,51074,2000,299,5187,2557,1699,153445,22664,65988],"class_list":["post-1162704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-apple","tag-apple-store","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-european-union-countries","tag-income-tax","tag-tax-payments"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117138079652387691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}