The EU gave Apple a deadline to pay the Irish what it legally owed them and Jobs’ Mob has not done it yet.
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that the recovery had not happened and it was working with the Irish. Apparently the Irish are moving forward to do the recovery of the unpaid taxes.
"It's a tricky thing to do because it's a large sum so of course you have to figure out how to do that. It's not as an escrow account in some of the other cases where it might be 25 or 30 million euros ... and therefore I do respect that it's a complicated matter and it may take a little more time.”
Last year, the Commission ruled that Ireland must recover 13 billion euros in "illegal tax benefits" from Apple. It found that the U.S. technology giant paid an effective tax rate of 0.005 percent in Ireland in 2014 which was taking the piss a bit when it came to tax avoidance.
Apple has insisted it has done nothing wrong, but it always does that right up until the point that the highest court in the land insists that it really had done something wrong. Both Ireland and Apple have pledged to fight the decision via the European courts. Vestager said at the press conference that she does not know when the court case will take place for Apple and Ireland to appeal the EU's decision.
A spokeman for the Irish government confirmed that it was continuing to make progress of the recovery from Apple with the full cooperation of the company and the EU Commission.
We are sure the cheque is in the mail, unless:
• The dog ate the invoice.
• Tim Cook thought he was going to inherit some money from my mother, but she is still alive.
• Tim Cook accidentally shredded the invoices.”
• Someone hacked the iCloud again and deleted the invoice.
• The invoice was stored on a secure iPhone but Apple forgot the password and the genius in the iPhone Store will not repair it.
• Steve Jobs, who signed off on the payments is dead.
• Apple hates you all and will never ever pay you anything. Instead it is going towards Apple’s cash mountain where Tim Cook will take a well-earned skiing holiday on its upper slopes every Christmas – Bwah ha ha.
