The Financial Times reports that new tax disclosures showed Apple paid Ireland $17 billion in corporate income taxes in 2025, accounting for 40% of its worldwide total. Here are the details.
Apple says figures don’t tell the full story
According to The Financial Times, Apple’s tax payments to Ireland reached $17 billion last year, as disclosed in reports required under new EU rules for large companies.
The $17 billion total includes back taxes from a long-running EU dispute that ended in 2024, when the bloc’s top court ruled that Ireland had granted Apple unlawful state aid, and upheld an order requiring the country to recover up to €13 billion in unpaid taxes.
The FT added that according to the new filings, “a quarter of Apple’s global pre-tax profits in the year to September 2025 were booked through its Ireland entities, where it employs about 3 per cent of its workforce.”
