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Apple has $15bn Irish tax bill overturned

The EU's second highest court says Apple will not have to pay a record sum in back taxes.

The EU's second highest court says Apple will not have to pay a record sum in back taxes. Both the tech giant and Ireland which was to receive the payment have welcomed the news, and we find out why from Neale Richmond, Member of the Irish Parliament for the governing Fine Gael party. And we hear more on the implications for global tax policy from Tove Ryding, tax co-ordinator at the European Network on Debt and Development. Also in the programme, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Faarea Masud reports on the significant financial implications for Saudi Arabia that this year's Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca has been scaled back to just 10,000 attendees, when normally around two million people would make the journey. Plus, as gyms, indoor swimming pools and leisure centres in England prepare to reopen next week, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Sarah Corker reports on the precautions being undertaken, and concerns among the businesses involved that they may never be profitable again.

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