"[The decision] confirms the European Commission's 2016 decision: Ireland granted Apple unlawful aid which Ireland is required to recover," the judges wrote.
Apple's statement to the Financial Times argued, "the EU was trying to retroactively change the rules and ignore that, as required by international tax law, our income was already subject to taxes in the US."
The EU Commission ordered Apple to pay back "illegal state aid" over the ten-year period before it began investigating its tax practices.
The decision follows several setbacks for the European Commission against US corporations, which could haunt future EU cases against big tech around tax havens.
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