According to the newspaper, Apple paid US$17 billion in corporate income tax in Ireland in 2025, accounting for 40% of its US$43 billion in global payments. financial times Consider Apple’s reporting under new EU rules for large companies.
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The figure includes taxes owed in the EU’s long-running dispute. In 2024, the EU’s highest court ruled that Ireland provided illegal state aid to Apple and upheld a ruling requiring the country to recover up to 13 billion euros in unpaid taxes.
It is worth noting that “a quarter of Apple’s global pre-tax profits for the fiscal year ending in September 2025 come from the company’s Irish operations, with about 3% of the company’s employees working in Ireland,” the Financial Times wrote.
Due to its low corporate tax rate (currently 12.5%), Ireland benefits significantly from the large IT companies registered in the country. In 2024, just three companies—Eli Lilly, Apple, and Microsoft—paid nearly half of all corporate taxes in the country.
“Apple’s pre-tax profits per employee in Ireland were $6 million, compared with just $51,000 in Germany, where the company paid $153 million in taxes, or 0.3% of the total. Ireland, where Apple’s European headquarters is located, has 5,575 employees and Germany has 4,089 employees. ——The Financial Times pointed out.
Apple, in turn, told the Financial Times that the data provided did not reflect the full amount of taxes it paid in different countries. The company said the data focuses on corporate income tax linked to where assets are held, rather than other taxes such as value-added tax that are levied based on where the customer is located.
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