Apple has published country-level tax and profit data across European Union member states for the first time, complying with new bloc-wide transparency requirements that took effect for large multinationals this year.
The figures cover the financial year ending September 2025. Ireland stands out sharply: Apple recorded $17.1 billion in tax payments there, a figure the company attributed to the release of funds that had been held pending the outcome of its legal battle with the European Commission. The Commission had ordered Apple to repay billions in back taxes and interest, ruling that preferential tax arrangements it received from Ireland constituted illegal state aid. Apple lost that case.
Elsewhere in Europe, Apple’s German operations generated $2.72 billion in revenue, with pre-tax profit of around $209 million and income tax payments of $153.5 million, according to figures reported by the German news agency dpa.
The disclosures are required under an EU directive that obliges multinationals with annual revenues exceeding 750 million euros to publish granular tax data by jurisdiction. The rules bring into the open figures that companies had previously filed only with regulators, under confidentiality.
