Profesional View: Commission probe unlikely to bear fruit

The European Commission’s investigation into Apple’s tax affairs started out as a narrow probe of a transfer pricing arrangement in place in Ireland back in 1991, but could

expand into a much broader trawl through Apple’s global

tax affairs.

The discussions from 1991 that took place between Apple’s tax advisers and the Revenue Commissioners were reported in a damning fashion by the Commission, but were short of what is required for an adverse ...