The court upheld a decision requiring Apple to pay €13 billion ($14.3 billion) in back taxes to Ireland. This case originated in 2016 when the European Commission alleged that Ireland had granted Apple an unlawful state aid by providing it with a sweetheart tax deal. Despite Apple’s initial success in having the order annulled by the EU’s General Court in 2020, the European Commission appealed, and the European Court of Justice ultimately ruled in favor of the commission.
The European Court of Justice rejected Google’s appeal against a €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion) fine imposed by the European Commission in 2017. The fine was levied for Google’s abuse of its dominant position in the search engine market by favoring its own Google Shopping service over competitors.
