The recent EU Commission ruling on Apple’s
tax arrangements with Ireland will be debated in the European Parliament
tomorrow. The competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager will discuss the
ruling with MEPs. A number of senior MEPs have already come out in support of
the ruling. However the Fine Gael MEP Sean Kelly says Ireland has no choice but
to challenge the commission’s findings.
Out words: with it
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The Fine Gael MEP Sean Kelly has rubbished
suggestions that Ireland could legitimately claim back €13billion (thirteen
billion euro) from Apple in back taxes.
Mr Kelly was reacting to the recent EU Commission ruling that Ireland
granted Apple illegal tax benefits and that the multinational owed a whopping
€13billion plus interest to the Irish State. The ruling will be debated by the
European Parliament tomorrow. However, Sean Kelly says there’s no way Ireland
would be entitled to a €13bn (thirteen billion) tax rebate.
Out words: it is
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The EU Commission is set to sign off on a
new data transfer arrangement between the EU and the US. The EU’s Privacy
Shield is to provide a legal basis for businesses to transfer online personal data
from the EU to the US. Privacy Shield was established after the previous arrangement,
known as Safe Harbour ,was struck down following a challenge from the Austrian privacy
campaigner Max Schrems. He had challenged the use of his personal online data
in Ireland. Critics have said the new Privacy
Shield arrangement is not robust enough. But the Fine Gael MEP Deirdre Clune argues
a number of measures are now in place for better data protection.
Out words: we didn’t
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