Reuters reported earlier on the Irish Parliamentary Commission's tax bill report, in which Niall Cody, chairman of the tax commission, said that 13 billion euros (about 16 billion U.S. dollars) is basically close to the European Commission's tax payment standard given in 2016, before the European Commission Had said that the Irish government levied on Apple's standard tax rates are 'illegal tax incentives', 2014 Apple's effective corporate tax rates from 1% in 2003 dropped to 0.005% in 2014.
Earlier, Apple's tax progress is very slow, the Irish government even set up a special escrow fund to Apple's taxation work, but the effect is still not satisfactory, after the European Commission in October 2017 the Irish government to the EU The court, this time to the Irish government and Apple sounded a wake-up call, in January 2018, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadeka said to the European Commission, Apple will pay the tax initially in the second quarter of 2018 , Until the third quarter.
Niall Cody, chairman of the tax commission, has now confirmed that the Irish government has not yet finalized Apple's tax arrears, but has completed 95% of the total schedule. The final amount will be announced soon and all calculations will be completed by the end of April.