Starbucks Brews Up a Tax Storm as Apple Gets Set to Fight EU
- Coffee company in appeal wants court to annul EU decision
- EU ordered Starbucks to pay back taxes to the Netherlands
Beverages sit on a table inside a Starbucks Corp. coffee shop.
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Starbucks Corp. attacked “manifest errors” by European Union competition watchdogs as details of the coffee chain’s appeal of a 30 million-euro ($32 million) tax repayment order were made public for the first time.
In a preview of Apple Inc.’s 13 billion-euro court fight with Brussels regulators, Starbucks criticized its EU order, saying officials made several “errors of assessment,” according to a summary of its appeal published this week.