EU orders Apple to pay back up to €13bn in taxes to Ireland

The European Commission has published a widely-expected decision to determine Apple's tax dealings in Ireland illegal, and ordered the US tech giant to pay up to 13bn in back taxes to the government there.
"Selective treatment" was given to the makers of the iPhone and iPad by the Irish government between 2003 and 2014, in which it was allowed to decrease its tax rate from 1% to 0.005%, according to the Commission.