Apple’s fight against a $14 billion EU tax bill suffers a setback
苹果公司反对140亿美元欧盟税收法案的斗争遭遇挫折
A European tribunal made legal errors when it ruled in favor of Apple over a €13 billion ($14 billion) tax order and should review the case again, an adviser to Europe’s top court said Thursday, in a potential setback for the iPhone maker.
欧洲最高法院的一名顾问周四表示，欧洲法庭在130亿欧元（140亿美元）的税收命令上裁定苹果胜诉时犯了法律错误，应该再次审查此案，这对iPhone制造商来说是一个潜在的挫折。
The tax case against Apple (AAPL) dates back years and was part of a crackdown by the European Union’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on deals between multinationals and EU countries that regulators saw as unfair state aid.
针对苹果（AAPL）的税务案件可以追溯到几年前，是欧盟反垄断负责人玛格丽特·维斯塔格（Margrethe Vestager）对跨国公司与欧盟国家之间交易的打击的一部分，监管机构认为这是不公平的国家援助。
In a 2016 decision, the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said Apple had benefited from two Irish tax rulings for more than two decades that artificially reduced its tax burden to as low as 0.005% in 2014.
在2016年的一项决定中，欧盟执行机构欧盟委员会表示，二十多年来，苹果一直受益于爱尔兰的两项税收裁决，这些裁决在2014年人为地将其税收负担降低到0.005%。
Apple challenged the ruling, and the EU’s General Court upheld the challenge in 2020, saying regulators had not met the legal standard to show Apple had enjoyed an unfair advantage.
苹果对这一裁决提出质疑，欧盟普通法院在2020年维持了这一挑战，称监管机构没有达到法律标准，表明苹果享有不公平的优势。
