Opinion
Ian Guider: We could save face by taking Apple’s €13bn and giving it to the taxpayer
Our reputation has been damaged twice by the long-running case, which is now set to run even longer with the EU court’s decision
It is unlikely anyone in the Department of Finance was preparing to pop open the champagne on Thursday morning, regardless of the advocate-general’s opinion in the long-running €13 billion Apple tax saga.
If they were tempted, any celebration is now firmly on ice following the advocate-general’s finding. It would be a very odd twist of fate if the full ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) differs from it when it ...