EU Claims Court Errors in Bid to Overturn $15.7 Billion Apple Tax Judgment

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Aug. 21, 2020. Yves Herman/Reuters

BRUSSELS—EU antitrust enforcers have claimed a court made legal errors when it scrapped their order for iPhone maker Apple to pay 13 billion euros ($15.7 billion) in Irish back taxes, in a filing to have the verdict overturned.

The stakes are high for the European Commission in its crackdown against what it sees as aggressive tax planning by multinationals.