{"id":1030438,"date":"2026-08-22T08:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030438"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:30:35","slug":"apple-paid-40-of-its-global-taxes-to-ireland-in-last-fiscal-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/22\/apple-paid-40-of-its-global-taxes-to-ireland-in-last-fiscal-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple paid 40% of its global taxes to Ireland in last fiscal year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN: Apple paid Ireland $17.1 \u200bbillion in taxes \u200blast year, representing around 40% \u200bof its worldwide total, according to a company filing that detailed the iPhone maker&#8217;s \u200cglobal \u2060tax liabilities \u2060country-by-country. <\/p>\n<p>Apple said the amount paid to \u200bIreland was &#8220;significantly higher&#8221; than income taxes accrued as \u200bit included \u20ac13 billion ($15.18 billion) in back taxes that it was ordered \u200bto pay Ireland by \u2060European Union&#8217;s \u200ctop court in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>Ireland \u200bfought \u200bthe EU back-tax bill \u2060alongside Apple for eight years, seeking to \u200bdefend its position as the \u200blocation of choice for U.S. multinationals in Europe &#8211; and the billions of euros in direct and indirect taxes they bring in \u200ceach year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN: Apple paid Ireland $17.1 \u200bbillion in taxes \u200blast year, representing around 40% \u200bof its worldwide total, according to a company filing that detailed the iPhone maker&#8217;s \u200cglobal \u2060tax liabilities \u2060country-by-country. Apple said the amount paid to \u200bIreland was &#8220;significantly higher&#8221; than income taxes accrued as \u200bit included \u20ac13 billion ($15.18 billion) in back taxes that it was ordered \u200bto pay Ireland by \u2060European Union&#8217;s \u200ctop court in 2024. Ireland \u200bfought \u200bthe EU back-tax bill \u2060alongside Apple for eight years, seeking to \u200bdefend its position as the \u200blocation of choice for U.S. multinationals in Europe &#8211; and the billions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030455,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030438\/revisions\/1030455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}