Apple reveals tax payments under new EU transparency rules

Apple has for the first time disclosed how much profit it booked and tax it paid across individual European Union countries under new transparency rules. Germany was also among the countries detailed in the report.

The figures for the financial year that ended in September 2025 show particularly large tax payments in Ireland, where Apple reported $17.1 billion in income tax paid.

The company said the unusually high figure reflected the release of funds from an escrow account following a European Commission state-aid decision and a ruling by the European Court of Justice.

Apple lost a long-running legal battle with the European Commission in September 2024 over tax advantages it received in Ireland. The commission ordered the company to pay €13 billion ($15.2 billion) in back taxes plus interest.

For Germany Apple recorded a pre-tax profit of around $209 million in the country and paid $153.5 million in income tax.

Its German operations generated revenue of $2.72 billion and employed 4,089 people, including more than 2,000 engineers at Apple's European Silicon Design Centre in Munich, its largest development site in Europe.

Under an EU directive on public country-by-country reporting, multinational companies with global annual revenue of more than €750 million must publicly disclose income tax information for individual countries.

The figures previously had to be submitted only confidentially to tax authorities.