EU’s Vestager aims to finish tax avoidance probes in second-quarter next year

(Reuters) – EU regulators hope to wrap up ongoing probes into the legality of tax deals between Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Ireland with Apple (AAPL.O), Starbucks (SBUX.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Fiat (FCHA.MI) by the second quarter of 2015, the EU anti-trust’s chief said on Thursday.

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said she wanted to finish the four cases before opening new investigations.

“We hope to finalise the four open cases by the second quarter next year,” Vestager told a press conference.