Apple CEO slams EU tax-dodging claims

Apple's CEO Tim Cook has hit back after the European Commission ruled that the global tech firm must pay €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes to Ireland. Apple has been running its European operations from Cork, Ireland, since 1980. The European Commission released a report yesterday stating that due to what it believes was a special deal with the Irish government, Apple paid one per cent tax in 2003, down to 0.005 per cent in 2014. But Cook (pictured) released a letter to customers on the compa...