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Apple has for the first time disclosed detailed profit and tax figures for its operations in each European Union member state, following the implementation of new public country-by-country reporting rules. The filing for the year ended September 2025 indicates the company paid $17.1 billion in taxes in Ireland, accounting for about 40 percent of its $43.2 billion worldwide income tax bill. This substantial Irish contribution included a large one-time payment related to a resolved European Union legal dispute, according to the report.
The $17.1 billion paid to Ireland comprised back taxes of roughly $12.3 billion from the long-running state aid case, which saw the European Court of Justice uphold a demand for €13 billion plus interest in 2024, Reuters reported. Apple’s Irish subsidiaries generated $213.6 billion in revenue and reported a pre-tax profit of $34.6 billion during the period. The effective tax rate stood at 13.8 percent, above Ireland’s standard 12.5 percent corporate rate.
In Germany, the company booked a pre-tax profit of $209 million on $2.72 billion in revenue and paid $153.5 million in income taxes. Apple employs 4,089 workers in the country, more than half of whom are engineers at its Munich-based European Silicon Design Center. The facility is described as the largest of its kind for the company on the continent.
The technology firm emphasized in the filing that it ranks among the world’s biggest taxpayers and takes pride in the contributions it makes to societies in which it does business. Corporate income taxes are assessed where key decision-making and risks occur, predominantly in the United States as well as via the European base in Cork, Ireland, the company explained. Over five years Apple has contributed $34 billion in taxes to EU nations, a company spokesman confirmed to The Irish Times.
New European Union requirements compel multinationals exceeding €750 million in annual global revenue to publish tax data by jurisdiction, shifting from prior confidential filings with authorities alone. The Apple disclosure covers 18 EU countries along with Norway, Vietnam, Russia and Turkey, where it paid a combined $17.6 billion. An additional $25.6 billion was paid in taxes elsewhere globally, the figures show.
The report arrives after years of scrutiny over multinational tax practices, including the Apple case that highlighted differences in where profits are booked versus where economic activity takes place. Irish operations, despite employing just 3 percent of Apple’s workforce, accounted for a quarter of the company’s global pre-tax profits. Apple noted that the disclosed corporate taxes do not reflect all payments such as value-added taxes collected at the point of sale.
