2023-05-24
Breaking: Meta loses court battle with European Commission over request to hand over documents. The Facebook group had challenged an EU order to hand over files containing certain search terms for a investigation into suspected anti-competitive behaviour https://www.irishtimes.com/...
Bloomberg
The EU General Court dismisses Meta's challenge to EU regulators seeking vast amounts of data in an antitrust case; Meta first opposed the request in 2020
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2022-07-11
Uber executives activated a so-called kill switch to cut access to company servers and prevent authorities from seizing evidence during raids on company offices in at least six countries and Hong Kong, according to the leaked documents and public records. https://www.irishtimes.com/...
The Guardian
A trove of 124k+ internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveals management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's aggressive global expansion
- More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian — Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne
The European Commission is set for a fresh uproar over lobbying and revolving doors as internal Uber documents reveal the role of former Dutch Commissioner Neelie Kroes in lobbying for Uber before she joined the company. Uber employees were instructed to keep it a secret: https://twitter.com/...
The Guardian
A trove of 124k+ internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveals management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's aggressive global expansion
- More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian — Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne
2021-04-19
Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4bn in profits out of Ireland in 2019, escaping corporation tax both in the Republic and in the United States, @ChasTaylor reports https://www.irishtimes.com/...
RTÉ
Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the “double Irish” tax scheme
Will Goodbody / RTÉ :
2021-04-18
Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4bn in profits out of Ireland in 2019, escaping corporation tax both in the Republic and in the United States, @ChasTaylor reports https://www.irishtimes.com/...
RTÉ
Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the “double Irish” tax scheme
Newly filed accounts show that over $75bn in profits moved through a subsidiary of Google that was incorporated in Ireland in 2019 …
2020-07-15
Ireland did not give Apple illegal state aid, the European General Court has ruled, in a blow to EU Commission tax crusade. The billions in back taxes Ireland was ordered to collect likely to remain in an escrow account until final appeal https://www.irishtimes.com/...
Bloomberg
Apple wins its EU court fight over the record $14.9B Irish tax bill, as EU's General Court rules that Ireland's tax arrangements with Apple weren't illegal
- EU lower court ruling on Apple, Ireland cases can be appealed — Company, Ireland challenged European Commission decision