DUBLIN: The Irish government’s tax man was asked by the government what he thought Apple owed the country over its dodgy tax arrangement and he agreed with the EU.
For those who came in late, the EU has declared the Irish deal hatched out between Apple and the government was illegal and Jobs’ Mob is required to pay shedloads of tax it should have paid. Apple has denied that it has done anything illegal, but then again it didn’t think there was anything wrong with forming an illegal cartel with book publishers to make its customers pay more for books.
The Irish government also does not want Apple’s money because it fears that Jobs’ Mob will take its jobs somewhere else so it asked its tax man if the 13 billion euro figure demanded by the EU was wrong.
However, Revenue Commissioners’ chairman Niall Cody told a parliamentary committee when asked if the bill his office is obliged to calculate will be in line with the record EU estimate, which Dublin and Apple are appealing. He told them that it was was about right.
“Over 95 percent of the calculations are completed and we have agreed with the Commission that all our calculations will be with them before the end of April.”
