The General Court of the EU has issued a judgement quashing the European Commission’s 2016 decision that Irish tax rulings in favour of Apple’s subsidiaries amounted to state aid. The court found this Wednesday that “the Commission did not succeed in showing to the requisite legal standard that there was an advantage,” which would be illegal under EU competition law. A statement from the court essentially slams Brussels investigators for not going far enough in their demonstration of the portion of profits that they alleged should have been taxed in Ireland:  “The Commission incorrectly concluded, in its primary line of…

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