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How exactly can they decline?

• okket 8y ago
  It is voluntary (but not answering questions may make you look shady). More information is in the first linked article: https://www.bna.com/apple-turns-down-n57982093151/ https://www.bna.com/apple-turns-down-n57982093151/ Apple claims answering public questions will interfere with their "pending appeal before the European Court of Justice challenging a European Commission illegal state aid decision". They offered a private session, but that was not good enough, because the questions were not about the appeal, but the tax avoidance scheme documented in the Paradise Papers.
• chrisseaton 8y ago
  As the title says, it's an invitation from a committee. It's not a summons from a court or anything with power like that. If Apple don't want to go for any reason or no reason at all then they don't have to.