{"id":263773,"date":"2016-08-25T19:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T19:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-threatens-eu-of-retaliation-over-apples-tax-case\/"},"modified":"2016-08-25T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:56:03","slug":"us-threatens-eu-of-retaliation-over-apples-tax-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-threatens-eu-of-retaliation-over-apples-tax-case\/","title":{"rendered":"US threatens EU of retaliation over Apple\u2019s tax case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US government has threatened the European Commission (EC) with retaliation if the body decides to proceed with its plan to demand millions of dollars in unpaid taxes from technology giant Apple.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury Department issued a rare warning on Wednesday, accusing the Brussels-based body of becoming a \u201csupranational tax authority\u201d that poses a threat to international agreements concerning tax reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US Treasury Department continues to consider potential responses should the Commission continue its present course,\u201d the Treasury said in its strongest language to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strongly preferred and mutually beneficial outcome would be a return to the system and practice of international tax cooperation that has long fostered cross-border investment between the United States and EU member states,\u201d the warning added.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union (EU) has been investigating a series of tax deals between Apple and Ireland which allow the iPhone maker&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/08\/25\/481685\/US-Apple-tax-case-EU\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has threatened the European Commission (EC) with retaliation if the body decides to proceed with its plan to demand millions of dollars in unpaid taxes from technology giant Apple. The US Treasury Department issued a rare warning on Wednesday, accusing the Brussels-based body of becoming a \u201csupranational tax authority\u201d that poses a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}