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A three-year investigation of Ireland's tax treatment of Apple is ending with a bill for billions of Euros and back taxes for the tech group

A 130-page judgment from the European Commission says that decisions made by authorities in Dublin violated EU law by granting Apple an advantage not available to other companies

The judgment underlines the European Commission's push to redraw the boundaries on aggressive tax avoidance by the world's biggest corporations

Poland has become the latest country to try to woo some of Britain's biggest banks in the wake of the Brexit vote

The Polish Deputy Prime Minister will arrive in London this week, armed with a package of incentives to lure city institutions to Warsaw

And an analysis by the Guardian newspaper shows that the UN paid tens of millions of dollars in UN contracts to people with close ties to Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad

The findings reveal the UN paid at least four million dollars to a state-owned fuel supplier that also appeared on an EU sanctions list

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