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However, a lower tribunal in 2021 scrapped the EU decision, dealing a blow to EU competition chief Margrethe Vestagers crackdown on preferential deals...
Amazon should not pay 250 million euros ($268 million)in back taxes to Luxembourg as ordered by EU competition enforcers, an adviser to Europes top court said on Thursday, as she cited errors in the EU regulators assessment..
The European Commission in its 2017 decision said Amazon paid no taxes on almost three-quarters of its profits from EU operations due to a Luxembourg tax arrangement allowing it to channel profits to a holding company tax-free...
The Commission erred in deciding that Luxembourg had granted unauthorised state aid to Amazon in the form of tax advantages, Advocate General Juliane Kokott at the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) said in a non-binding opinion...
