Apple discloses EU country-by-country tax payments

Apple has for the first time disclosed its profits and income tax payments in individual European Union countries under new transparency rules, with particularly large payments recorded in Ireland.

For the financial year ended September 2025, Apple reported $17.1 billion in income tax paid in Ireland. The company said the unusually high amount was linked to the release of funds from an escrow account following a European Commission state-aid decision and a ruling by the European Court of Justice, dpa reports.

Apple lost a long-running legal dispute with the European Commission in September 2024 over tax benefits it had received in Ireland. The commission had ordered the company to pay €13 billion ($15.2 billion) in back taxes, plus interest.

In Germany, Apple recorded pre-tax profit of about $209 million and paid $153.5 million in income tax. The company generated $2.72 billion in revenue in the country and employed 4,089 people, including more than 2,000 engineers at its European Silicon Design Centre in Munich, Apple's largest development site in Europe.

The disclosures were made under an EU directive requiring multinational companies with global annual revenue exceeding €750 million to publicly report income tax information on a country-by-country basis.

Previously, such information was generally submitted to tax authorities on a confidential basis.

By Sabina Mammadli