Apple and Ireland hear bark of the Great Dane

Kyran Fitzgerald assesses the implications of the EU ruling on Apple’s taxes pressed by competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, the highly experienced Danish politician

Margrethe Vestager is a Danish politician who calls it as she sees it. Last week, the Competition Commissioner had Apple and the Irish Government in her sights.

The ruling by her directorate general decreed to the effect that the Irish Government — by offering special tax arrangements to Apple over a 25-year period — broke EU rules governing state-aid rules.