European Commission ends state aid case against Amazon with no tax payout

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********* Commission ends state aid case against

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with no tax payout

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won’t need to pay the ********* Union €250 million ($263 million) in back taxes. On Wednesday, the bloc’s executive branch said it was

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, including one involving

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. The decision ends one of the company’s longest-running legal sagas.

In 2017, the ********* Commission found that, from 2006 to 2014,

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had used an operating company in Luxembourg to pay substantially less tax to the ********* Union. The shell company had no offices or staff, and was, according to the Commission, used solely by

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to lower its tax bill. By the Commission’s estimate, the e-commerce giant avoided taxation on three quarters of all the profit it made from online sales in the EU during that *******.

In 2021, however,

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won an appeal against the ruling. Although the company changed its tax structure following the investigation, it argued at the time that the Commission’s decision was full of “methodological errors.” It also said the payments were legal per international tax principles, an argument Europe’s second-highest court agreed with after finding

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’s structure didn’t confer it an advantage over other companies. Subsequently, the court ordered the Commission’s decision annulled.

With this week’s announcement, the Commission said it was “taking into account the guidance of the EU Courts” in closing the case against

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did not immediately respond to Engadget’s comment request.

While the end of its case against

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is a setback for the ********* Commission, earlier this year the body won a decisive victory against Apple. In September, Europe’s highest court ordered the tech giant to pay back a €13 billion ($14.4 billion) tax break from Ireland that was found to be ******** in 2016.

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