Apple paid $17 billion in taxes to Ireland in its last fiscal year, according to newly disclosed filings reported by multiple outlets. The payment represents roughly 40% of the company’s total $43 billion in global taxes for the period.
The disclosures come after years of legal and regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s Irish tax arrangements. In 2024, the EU’s top court ordered Apple to pay about €13 billion in back taxes, finding that Ireland had granted unlawful state aid that effectively resulted in a tax rate below 1% for the relevant structure. The reported figures are also tied to new EU requirements that require large multinationals to break down financial information by country.
While the outlets agree on the amounts and the significance of the EU ruling, they differ mainly in emphasis—some focus on the scale of the tax payment and its share of Apple’s global taxes, while others underline the background of the decade-long dispute and the mechanism by which the EU decision leads to the payment.
