State has spent €670k defending position in Apple tax case

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that the State has spent just under €670,000 on fees to date defending the State’s position in the European Commission Apple tax case.

In a Dáil reply to People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett, Mr Noonan said as the case “involves a significant degree of legal and technical complexity, some €667,000 has been spent to date by my department and the Revenue Commissioners on legal and other services.

“This figure does not incorporate any further legal costs or costs for other services pertaining to the attorney general’s office,” Mr Noonan said.