Starbucks Corp. attacked "manifest errors" by European Union competition watchdogs as details of the coffee chain's appeal of a 30 million euro ($32 million) tax repayment order were made public for the first time.
In a preview of Apple Inc.'s 13 billion euro court fight with Brussels regulators, Starbucks criticized its EU order, saying officials made several "errors of assessment," according to a summary of its appeal published this week.
The Seattle-based company is asking the EU General Court in Luxembourg to annul last year's EU decision accusing it of getting an unfair advantage from a tax arrangement with the Netherlands in violation of the bloc's state aid rules.
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