Fiat and Starbucks: tax rulings found to be illegal state aid | Practical Law
On 21 October 2015, Margrethe Vestager, the EU Commissioner in charge of competition policy, announced that tax rulings given to Fiat by the Luxembourg tax authority and to Starbucks by the Netherlands tax authority were illegal state aid. These EU member states must now recover the unlawful benefit from the companies, which is estimated at around €20 million to €30 million each.