By Tom Fairless
BRUSSELS--European Union regulators will explain on Tuesday why
they believe that tax deals granted to Apple Inc. (APPL) and Fiat
SpA (FIATY) violated EU law, an EU spokesman said.
The European Commission, the EU's central antitrust authority,
opened formal investigations in June into whether tax deals granted
to Apple in Ireland, Fiat's finance arm in Luxembourg and Starbucks
Corp. (SBUX) in the Netherlands amounted to illegal state support
for the companies.
The commission will publish its so-called opening decisions in
the Apple and Fiat cases on Tuesday, the spokesman said.
The regulator isn't yet ready to publish its opening decision in
the Starbucks investigation, which will follow in "a few weeks," he
said.
The Dutch letter has been delayed because negotiations with the
government over confidentiality are taking longer, he said.
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