https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/04/apples-irish-back-taxes-total-15-billion-after-paradise-papers.html

Ireland expects iPhone maker Apple to start paying up to 13 billion euros, or $15.4 billion, in back taxes into an escrow account in the first quarter of 2018, the finance minister said on Monday.

The European Commission said the record sum was the result of Apple receiving unfair tax incentives from Ireland.