Apple paid Ireland $17.1bn in tax last financial year. That is around 40% of everything it paid in corporate income tax anywhere in the world.
The figure comes from a company filing that breaks Apple’s tax down country by country, Reuters reported from Dublin. Apple paid $43.2bn in income taxes worldwide in the year to September 2025.
Ireland spent eight years trying not to receive most of it. It fought the bill in court alongside the company that owed it.
Why the number is this large
Apple says the Irish figure is “significantly higher” than the income taxes it accrued there.
