The European Union's top competition regulator stood by her decision to demand more than $14 billion in tax repayments from Apple Inc. and tweeted that she may investigate other major U.S. companies, ahead of meetings with officials in Washington.
Margrethe Vestager, the EU's commissioner for competition, met Monday with U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew; Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez; Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, chairman of the Finance Committee; and other key lawmakers.
Hatch said Vestager failed to make “an effective case for this highly politicized ruling rooted in an erroneous interpretation of law.”
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