Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it is in the attention of France and Germany because of the way it collects the money for the products sold in these countries and does not pay profit according to them. More precisely, France and Germany want to tax Apple for receipts and profit according to local laws and not that of Ireland, where Apple has a European subsidiary that controls all its businesses on the continent and that collects all the money from sales.
Apple will have all the businesses in France and Germany analyzed by the authorities, and based on the results they could force Apple to pay taxes for the money collected at the local level. Government representatives of both countries complained that European initiatives to solve the tax problem are not being implemented quickly enough, and Apple continues to make good money in another country.
Apple comes under the attention of France and Germany because of taxes
Apple is in the attention of France and Germany after the European Commission has already imposed that Apple pay 13 billion euros as part of retroactively owed taxes. Apple has not paid any money, but will deposit the respective amount in a special account until the appeal procedures against the decision made by the European Commission are finished and it is unlikely that they will actually pay any money.
However, Apple was forced by the Italians to pay tax to the tax authorities for the amounts generated in the country, and in Great Britain it did exactly the same thing. In this idea, it is very likely that something similar will happen in France or Germany, considering that these countries are quite determined to extract as much money as they can from Apple.
France will propose the "simpler rules" for a "real taxation" of tech firms at a meeting of European Union officials due mid-September in Tallinn, Estonia, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in an interview in his Paris office on Friday, complaining that Europe-wide initiatives are proving too slow... Germany and France discussed tax issues at a joint cabinet meeting last month and Germany can be expected to discuss specific proposals after its national election on Sept. 24, Denis Kolberg, a finance ministry spokesman, told reporters in Berlin on Monday.
The upcoming proposals from Germany and France follow a decision from EU antitrust regulators last year allowed Ireland to recover 13 billion euros in illegal tax benefits from Apple.
France and Germany, the report explains, will also push for a broader alignment of tax systems among the 19 eurozone states.
