Apple moves iTunes App Store for Ireland

cupertino - Apple moved the App Store, iTunes, Apple's music and iBooks Store formally to Ireland. International services from February 5 no longer be based in Luxembourg. Apple subtracts from one tax haven to another, Ars Technica reported Friday.

The move is striking. Apple received last year from the European Commission sentence. Who decided that Apple had to pay 13 billion euros in back taxes to Ireland. That country raised only 0.005 percent tax in some years, which was illegal state aid according to Brussels. Apple and Ireland went against the sentence on appeal.

Apple has thousands of people in Cork, the second city of the country. In addition, it is developing a large data center in the west of the country.

The US share of Apple continues moreover, based in Cupertino, a suburb of San Francisco.