UK Loses EU Court Bid to Topple Bloc’s Tax Clawback Order
- EU order in 2019 told UK some companies got unfair benefits
- Court dispute from 2019 is one of few UK cases still pending
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The UK lost a fight seeking to topple a pre-Brexit European Union order by the bloc’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager to claw back allegedly illegal tax breaks from multinational companies the EU said had received an unfair advantage.
The European Commission’s decision in April 2019 said some businesses were given an unjustified exemption from British anti-tax avoidance rules, violating state-aid rules that ban special treatment for individual firms. The UK and several of the companies appealed to the Luxembourg-based EU courts.