Fulfilling a promise, Apple on Monday formally appealed a tax ruling by the European Commission ordering Ireland to collect at least $13.6 billion in back taxes. The European Union "took unilateral action and retroactively changed the rules, disregarding decades of Irish tax law, U...
Apple and Brussels butted heads in a top EU court on Tuesday as the bloc battled to overturn a ruling against its whopping 13-billion euro order on the iPhone-maker to pay Ireland in back taxes.
Apple has submitted an urgent request to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, aiming to suspend enforcement of parts of a recent ruling that could significantly alter the operational structure of its App Store. This legal move follows a contem...
The appeals court vacated the district court's decision and sent the case back to the lower court to be reconsidered. Thursday'srulingmeans Samsung may have to change certain characteristics of its smartphones and tablets. The company in May said only one of its current devices used a...
The European Commission's appeal centers on two points. Allegedly, the court failed to correctly weigh the EU's analysis, and they also wrongly assessed the value of intellectual property issues. The EC also argues that the ruling was "contradictory" in places. ...
July's ruling came as a surprise to EU commissioners, who have in recent years set about probing national tax rulings that effectively serve as illegal subsidies and closing tax loopholes that allow some multinational companies to lawfully pay less tax in Europe. The final decision will now be...
has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to reverse a lower-court ruling that denied Apple's request for an injunction in the U.S. against 26 products made by rival Samsung Electronics Co.EBSCO_bspWall Street Journal - Eastern EditionSherrIan...
The ruling that has now been upheld was one of a number of aggressive moves by European officials to hold U.S. businesses, particularly big tech companies, accountable under the EU's rules on taxation, competition and privacy. Google also lost its final legal challenge on Tuesday against a ...
when California courts concluded that they could not prove that Apple was engaging in monopolistic behavior under federal or state laws. The trial did show, though, that “Apple is engaging in anticompetitive conduct under California’s competition laws,” according to the ruling. This was the on...
It was a surprise win for the commission, which has previously targetedAmazon,StarbucksandFiatwith tax rulings that were later overturned on appeal. They were part of the EU’s efforts to stamp out sweetheart deals that let companies pay little to no taxes ...