{"id":854180,"date":"2024-09-11T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T03:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=854180"},"modified":"2024-09-11T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T03:59:54","slug":"apple-loses-european-union-top-court-fight-over-14-4-bn-irish-tax-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/11\/apple-loses-european-union-top-court-fight-over-14-4-bn-irish-tax-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple loses European Union top court fight over $14.4 bn Irish tax bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. lost its court fight over a \u20ac13 billion ($14.4 billion) Irish tax bill and Google lost its challenge over a \u20ac2.4 billion fine for abusing its market power, in a double boost to the European Union\u2019s crackdown on Big Tech. <\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s Court of Justice in Luxembourg backed a landmark 2016 decision that Ireland broke state-aid law by giving Apple an unfair advantage. In another victory for the EU\u2019s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, the same court ruled that Google illegally leveraged its search-engine dominance to give a higher ranking to its own product listings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. lost its court fight over a \u20ac13 billion ($14.4 billion) Irish tax bill and Google lost its challenge over a \u20ac2.4 billion fine for abusing its market power, in a double boost to the European Union\u2019s crackdown on Big Tech. The EU\u2019s Court of Justice in Luxembourg backed a landmark 2016 decision that Ireland broke state-aid law by giving Apple an unfair advantage. In another victory for the EU\u2019s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, the same court ruled that Google illegally leveraged its search-engine dominance to give a higher ranking to its own product listings.<\/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":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854180","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=854180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}