breaks given by the wealthy duchy to dozens of major us firms the revelations came as a particular embarrassment for european commission president jeanclaude juncker who was prime minister of luxembourg at the time when the tax deals were made in a similar dutch case the eu decided against coffee shop chain starbucks in the netherlands and ordered the latte and espressomaker to pay roughly 30 million euros in back taxes in accordance with vestagers blockbuster 2015 decision against apple ireland said earlier this month it will begin collecting the 13 billion euros in back taxes owed by the us based iphonemaker pti published on dec 19 2017 at 0833 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app ikeas swedish furniture giant dutch subsidiary margrethe vestager brussels homenewseu launches probe into ikeas dutch tax deals