Apple Suffers Setback in Fight Against EU’s $14 Billion Tax Order

Apple Suffers Setback in Fight Against EU’s $14 Billion Tax Order
The Apple logo atop an Apple store at a shopping mall in La Jolla, Calif., on Dec. 17, 2019. Mike Blake/Reuters
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LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) -An EU tribunal made legal errors when it ruled in favour of Apple over a 13-billion-euro ($14 billion) tax order and should review the case again, an adviser to Europe’s top court said on Thursday, in a potential setback for the iPhone maker.

The tax case against Apple was part of EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s crackdown against deals between multinationals and EU countries that regulators saw as unfair state aid.