The story of how Brussels took on Apple, Ireland, and the US and won - including internal talks about reducing the mammoth €13bn sum and making sure it didn't impact the Brexit vote thetimes.com/business-money…

If you only read one article about the EU-#Apple case ⚖️, it should be this one. Instead of focusing on Margrethe Vestager, it goes behind the scenes, to what came before the Commissioner herself got involved.

“the new 🇪🇺 commission is under pressure to revive its state aid armour to force governments to collect more corporate tax. About $1 trillion of profits were shifted by large multinationals to low-tax jurisdictions in 2022”. Bravo Helena Malikova! #Apple #ProfitShifting

"She is one of the most vocal advocates for greater enforcement of EU anti-trust and competition rules and has called for a radical shake-up of the economic models that underpin the regulators' work" Helena Malikova 👏🏽

This week, the European Commission won an 8-year battle to force Apple to pay 13 billion in unpaid taxes. It all started in 2013 with the forensic eye and stubborn determination of one woman, and ended in the biggest scalp that any global regulator has claimed in the war on

What an incredible story. The grit and determination of one EU official against all odds that forced Ireland and Apple into a 13 billion Euro tax defeat. #mustread ⁦Helena Malikova⁩ thetimes.com/business-money…

“Apple, then the world’s biggest company by market capitalisation, was paying as little as 0.005 per cent tax on profits booked through two Irish subsidiaries…as part of a “sweetheart” tax deal with the Irish government that dated back to 1991.”

The New York Times wants you to rest easy with the knowledge that the person Israel murdered wasn’t *really* an American

In 2020, I started reporting the astonishing story of a Uyghur family separated in China. The story took 2 more years of reporting - in part because someone behind the scenes was trying to kill it. That story is the subject of an upcoming series. npr.org/2024/08/25/119…

In a world that often seems to float entirely on hot air, Helena Malikova is the real deal. She has long been a sane, steady voice in competition, explaining that for REAL rigor enforcers should look harder at a company's finances, not fantasy models from I/O economics. A star.

⚱️Gold prices have hit another record high - a good time to issue a partial apology to the gold bugs (and my extended South Asian family) . My chat with Luke Jones for The Story pod The Times and The Sunday Times podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

The Bank of England’s sped up QT could cost the exchequer up to £96 billion over the next four years, according to figures from NEF 💷 thetimes.com/article/f17513…

Europe is in thrall to the far right – that’s the result of appeasement by so-called moderates | Gordon Brown theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

economist.com/britain/2024/0… This piece from June pointing out that Starmer's addiction to free clothes and football hospitality boxes might become a problem has held up well.

Absolute mayhem across the city. This seems to have been v targeted, as we hear Iranian ambassador was hit+ son of a Hezbollah legislator was killed+ hezb operatives in Syria. No doubt that civilians must have also sustained injuries, either from standing nearby or having same

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