Starbucks Corp. attacked “manifest errors” by European Unioncompetition watchdogs as details of the coffee chain's appeal of a30 million euro ($32 million) tax repayment order were made publicfor the first time.
In a preview of Apple Inc.'s 13 billion euro court fight withBrussels regulators, Starbucks criticized its EU order, sayingofficials made several “errors of assessment,” according to asummary of its appeal published this week.
The Seattle-based company is asking the EU General Court inLuxembourg to annul last year's EU decision accusing it of gettingan unfair advantage from a tax arrangement with the Netherlands inviolation of the bloc's state aid rules.
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