A cewar wani rahoto da sanannen kamfanin PricewaterhouseCoopers (daga nan PwC), Gwamnatin Irish ta kashe sama da € 440.000 akan takaddar da ta amince kuma ta ba da tabbacin yarjejeniyar haraji da aka yi da kamfanin Arewacin Amurka. Ƙarin dabara ce daga ɓangaren Ireland don kare yarjejeniyar da ta kulla a yau tare da kamfanin Califonia.
Rahoton an mika shi ga jami'an Hukumar Turai watanni da yawa kafin mai tsara doka ya yanke hukuncin cewa Apple ya aikata laifuka da dama a Turai, wanda aka ƙiyasta adadin waɗannan laifukan a kusan million 13.000 miliyan.
Ma'aikatar Baitulmalin Irish ta bayyana a farkon wannan watan cewa Kasar Burtaniya za ta kashe dala miliyan 1.8 har zuwa yau a wannan harka. Yawancin waɗannan kashe kuɗai sun tafi ga lauyoyin da ke karewa da wakiltar Ireland, jagorancin PwC Belgium.
Ireland ta bayar da hujjar cewa rahoton da kamfanin na Belgium ya bayar ya goyi bayan matsayin da kasar ta dauka, wanda ya kare cewa an yi yarjejeniyarsa da kamfanin na Cupertino daidai da doka. Don haka, suna kare wannan a cewar bayanan, "Hukuncin harajin da aka ɗauka a wannan shari'ar tsakanin 1991 zuwa 2007 sun yi daidai da dokokin yanzu."
Duk da haka, Hukumar ta ki amincewa da wannan matsayin, tana mai cewa hanyar da aka gabatar ta OECD. Duka kamfanin na Califonia da kasar Burtaniya sun daukaka kara kan hukuncin Hukumar, wanda ke buƙatar sau ɗaya kuma gaba ɗaya na biyan kuɗin € 13.000.
Ya kamata a tuna cewa bisa ga Hukumar Turai, Ireland ta ba wa Apple ƙimar haraji mai ƙarancin gaske na shekaru da yawa, yana amfanar kamfanin da sauran masu fafatawa a tsohuwar nahiyar.
A halin yanzu wannan shari'ar a bude take, don haka a kula, domin muna da tabbacin za mu ci gaba da samun labarai game da shi.