In recent years, the General Court of the European Union and the European Court of Justice overturned Commission decisions requiring the three companies to pay tens of millions of euros in compensation for what they considered undeserved tax benefits.
The Commission explained that “following the rulings issued by the courts European UnionThe Commission concluded that these tax decisions did not grant benefits to the companies concerned,” announcing in a statement the closure of the three investigations that targeted Amazon Deaths and Starbucks.
In December 2023, the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of online commerce giant Amazon, in its dispute with Brussels, which required it to pay 250 million euros ($263.6 million) to Luxembourg.
In November 2022, the car manufacturer won Fiat (Stellantis Group) filed a similar case before the European Court of Justice and obtained the cancellation of a decision requiring it to pay 30 million euros to Luxembourg.
In 2019, the American coffee chain won Starbucks Also before the General Court of the European Union in a dispute against the Commission, which asked it to pay 30 million euros to the Netherlands.
Luxembourg and the Netherlands are regularly denounced by non-governmental organizations for their tax practices aimed at attracting investments from multinational companies.
