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Your top stories on Tuesday: EU court to rule on €13bn Apple tax case; disposable vapes to be banned in Ireland

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Marine archeologists at work at a shipwreck site on Portmarnock beach in north Dublin. Photograph: PA
Marine archeologists at work at a shipwreck site on Portmarnock beach in north Dublin. Photograph: PA
EU court to rule on €13bn Apple case on taxes in Ireland
The EU’s top court will this morning deliver its keenly-awaited ruling on Apple’s tax affairs in the Republic.

A key adviser to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) recommended last November that it set aside a 2020 EU general court ruling that the European Commission had failed to stand up a claim the iPhone maker owed the State more than €13 billion in back taxes, plus interest.

In his opinion in November, advocate general Giovanni Pitruzzella said the general court, the lower court, committed a series of errors of law and failed to assess “certain methodological errors” relating to Apple’s Irish tax liabilities.

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