Apple Italia and Apple Retail Italia in 2013 paid less than
eight million euros in taxes to the Italian inland revenue
agency, a company balance sheet seen by ANSA shows.
Two Apple managers are currently under investigation by
magistrates in Milan for false tax declarations.
Investigators believe Apple's sophisticated corporate-tax
strategy reduced its contribution to Italy's public coffers by
more than a billion euros over two years, from 2010 and 2011.
Apple's corporate structure for years has irritated Italian
and other European tax authorities by concentrating European
profits in Ireland, where the US computer giant has negotiated a
tax rate of less than 2%.
The California-based electronics maker in 2013 saw a
turnover of nearly 38 billion euros in Europe, and garnered
profits of 37 billion dollars worldwide.
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