{"id":1461,"date":"2021-05-12T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T09:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/amazon-wins-appeal-over-e250m-eu-tax-bill\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T09:46:36","slug":"amazon-wins-appeal-over-e250m-eu-tax-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/amazon-wins-appeal-over-e250m-eu-tax-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon wins appeal over \u20ac250m EU tax bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2017 European Commission decision that ordered US firm to pay back-taxes to Luxembourg overturned<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has won a court battle against the EU over allegations that the US technology company received \u20ac250m in \u201cillegal state aid\u201d tax benefits from Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2021-05\/cp210079en.pdf\">ruling from Europe\u2019s general court<\/a> is the latest blow to the EU\u2019s fight against \u201csweetheart deals\u201d that allegedly allow big multinational tech companies to avoid hundreds of millions of euros in tax in other member states.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/12\/amazon-wins-appeal-over-250m-eu-tax-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b1b36b28d0ffd563447e34e6d0e47293fa243327\/842_1019_2159_1296\/master\/2159.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8219bd27cef1eed2b83a8d8e1c1e625f\" title=\"Amazon wins appeal over \u20ac250m EU tax bill\" \/>2017 European Commission decision that ordered US firm to pay back-taxes to Luxembourg overturned<br \/>\nAmazon has won a court battle against the EU over allegations that the US technology company received \u20ac250m in \u201cillegal state aid\u201d tax benefits from Luxembourg.<br \/>\nThe ruling from Europe\u2019s general court is the latest blow to the EU\u2019s fight against \u201csweetheart deals\u201d that allegedly allow big multinational tech companies to avoid hundreds of millions of euros in tax in other member states. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 European Commission decision that ordered US firm to pay back-taxes to Luxembourg overturned Amazon has won a court battle against the EU over allegations that the US technology company received \u20ac250m in \u201cillegal state aid\u201d tax benefits from Luxembourg. The ruling from Europe\u2019s general court is the latest blow to the EU\u2019s fight against &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/amazon-wins-appeal-over-e250m-eu-tax-bill\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon wins appeal over \u20ac250m EU tax bill<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}