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.