EU court backs Amazon in tax ruling
Brussels says it will carefully study whether to appeal to Europe s top court after Amazon won the annulment of a 2017 back-taxes ruling.
Amazon has won a major court case against the European Commission
EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager said Brussels would study carefully Wednesday s EU General Court annulment in favor of Amazon.
The case may still end up before the bloc s highest chamber, the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
In 2017, the EU Commission ordered the US retailer to pay €250 million ($300 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg, despite Luxembourg siding with Amazon.
At that time, Vestager had argued that Amazon had profited from special low tax conditions since 2003 in Luxembourg, home to the US giant s European headquarters.
The EU has begun legal action against the UK over an alleged breach of the Northern Ireland protocol, after the UK unilaterally decided to delay the introduction of checks on goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.
In order to stay in compliance with the Good Friday Agreement after Brexit, the EU and the UK negotiated the Northern Ireland protocol, which came into force on January 1. As part of the terms of this protocol, while Northern Ireland will remain part of the customs territory of the UK, customs checks and controls will apply for goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, thus avoiding the implementation of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.