Tax advice on Apple is costing Revenue €600,000

Revenue seeks ‘independent study’ on Apple tax situation; State hiring PwC tax team

The Revenue is paying around €600,000 to Brussels-based tax experts to lead the state’s fight against the Apple tax judgment.

The top expert is Isabel Verlinden, who heads PwC’s tax team in Brussels.

Back in 2014, Verlinden wrote in a PwC publication about public controversy as to whether tax rules allowed multinational companies to “pay less than what is deemed to be a ‘fair share’ of the overall tax burden” in some of ...