Overview
- New EU country-by-country filings reviewed by the Financial Times show Apple paid about $17 billion to Ireland in 2025, roughly 40% of its $43 billion global corporate-tax bill.
- That large payment was driven by the ECJ’s September 2024 ruling that reinstated an EU order to recover about €13 billion in back taxes that had been held in escrow since 2018.
- Apple’s filings attribute roughly $1.4 billion of the Ireland payment to the newly implemented OECD 15% global minimum tax, showing the rule is already generating revenue.
- The disclosures say a quarter of Apple’s global pre-tax profits for the year to September 2025 were reported in Ireland, producing unusually high profits per employee and concentrating fiscal receipts in a small jurisdiction.
- Apple continues to say it complied with Irish law and disputes the EU findings, while Ireland must now manage the economic and reputational effects of receiving an outsized share of a single firm’s tax payments and adapt to changing global rules.