Mun koma kan nauyin harajin da Apple ke biya ko ba ya biya don kasuwancinsa a cikin EU. Kuma ana sa ran cewa tsakanin watan Satumba zuwa Oktoba, za a cimma yarjejeniya da Hukumar Tarayyar Turai game da wannan batun. A cewar ministan kudin na Ireland kansa (inda alamar take da hedikwatarta ta Turai, don dalilan haraji), Michael Noon, kuma a cewar Reuters:
«Kwamishina Tarayyar Turai na Gasar, Margrethe Vestager, ta gaya mini cewa ba za a sami tsayayyar shawara a wannan watan na Yuli ba, amma hakan shawarar zata iya zuwa kafin faduwa. Abubuwan da nake tsammani an saita su a watan Satumba ko farkon Oktoba »
Ana zargin Apple, kamar sauran manyan ƙasashe irin su Google ko Yahoo, na Haraji a cikin ƙasashe da akayi la'akari da wuraren haraji saboda ƙananan harajin da ake amfani da su a cikin ayyukan, a madadin ƙirƙirar ayyuka da yawa a cikin ƙasar, yarjejeniyar da za a iya la'akari da ba da izinin jihar ba bisa doka ba. Kamfanin Cupertino yana aiki a can tare da rassa masu yawa don rage yawan haraji a wajen Amurka, yana samun ribar kusan 2/3 na kudaden shiga a cikin tsohuwar nahiyar.
Saboda haka, ribar da aka samu tsakanin 2004 da 2012 ta kamfanin apple (wani adadi wanda ya kai kimanin dala biliyan 64,1) na iya zama batun ƙimar haraji na 12.5%, ya bambanta da 2% na yanzu wanda ake amfani da shi, kuma a cikin wannan yanayin bashin kamfanin zai kusan dala biliyan 8 a harajin baya.
Apple, a nasa bangaren, ya nace cewa hakan ne ɗayan manyan masu ba da gudummawa a duniya kuma cewa tana biyan kowane haraji na bashi da yake bin duk inda aka kafa alamarta, a karkashin dokokin kowace kasa a halin yanzu.
Wannan shawarar tuni an jinkirta tunda ana tsammanin samun yarjejeniya a wannan batun a ƙarshen 2015, amma buƙatun daga EU don ƙarin bayani game da wannan ya sa binciken 2016, jinkirta hukuncin karshe.
Apple yana ɗaya daga cikin kamfanoni da yawa waɗanda suke cikin irin wannan halin da ake ciki, kamar madaukaki Google, McDonald da IKEA, da sauransu.
