Apple and the European Union have been wrestling with the case for years. On the morning of the 23rd local time, the European Court of Justice held a hearing on Apple's 130 billion euros in taxes.
A lawyer for the EU side said at the hearing that the ruling was about whether EU member states were allowed to exchange huge tax incentives for investment and jobs by multinational companies. This is the second "confrontation" between multinational giants and the EU this week. Facebook's parent company Meta was heavily fined 23.22 billion euros by the EU on the 12nd.