Apple Inc. won its court fight over a record 13 billion-euro ($14.9 billion) Irish tax bill in a crushing blow to European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s crackdown on preferential fiscal deals for companies.

For Ireland, a ruling that it didn’t illegally help Apple Inc. is vindication, of sorts.

Fears of a Hong Kong brain drain are increasing after China moved to tax its citizens’ global income, undermining the financial hub’s appeal to thousands of bankers and other white-collar workers from the mainland.

Apple Inc. won a court fight with the European Commission over whether it must pay Ireland 13 billion euros (14.9 billion) in unpaid taxes.

Dilip Lamba, who owns a transport company in Jodhpur in western India, has had more than three-quarters of his fleet of 50 trucks idling for months. Dharampal Nambardar, a farmer who grows wheat and mustard seed in Haryana state, is worried he might not make any profit this year.

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has ordered a review of capital gains tax, as the Treasury tries to find ways to get back some of the money it has poured into supporting the economy during the coronavirus crisis.

Large corporations have been forced to hand over 30 billion pesos ($1.3 billion) over the last six months in deals with the Mexican government as authorities clamp down on tax evasion, the country’s tax prosecutor said.

The IRS is planning to provide further instructions on a form related to the voluntary disclosure of previously undisclosed taxable income.