Thank you for the details but it does mean a EU tax payer working at Apple would have a conflict of interest ;)

Edit: EU tax payer, not all tax payers.

So would a US tax payer. Just he would be incentivised to trigger a US fine on Apple instead of a EU fine. So would a Japanese, or any tax payer, really. How did you come up with the idea that this is EU specific?

Because it's the EU doing the fining but of course, a global corporation has global tax payers.

The bigger the fines from one country, the less the taxes earned in another. For corps that haven't yet optimised their taxes.

*EU Tax payer

I find the thought entertaining that an high ranking EU employee would actively work for initiatives that would elevate fines to their employer.

I do think said person would gain more by lobbying for more direct salary than indirect salary shared with more than 300 million other EU citizens.

pretty sure taxes will not be decreased, but more projects will become possible.