by Alan Rhode | Jan 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
A new decade, new faces, a new agenda. But will it mean new solutions for old problems such as energy taxation needed to tackle climate change or VAT fraud or new taxes to help cover the EU Brexit funding gap or the ever present need...
by Alan Rhode | Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
For all the skeptics that have stood on the sidelines of the OECD digital tax talks and cast doubts about the chances of 128 countries agreeing to radically reform the international tax system in 2020, these past weeks have...
by Alan Rhode | Dec 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
The European Commission has recently estimated that Value Added Tax fraud involving online payments costed EU governments 5 billion euros in lost revenue in 2018. As electronic commerce expands significantly, especially...
by Alan Rhode | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Now we know: there are two sets of rules the European Union uses when drawing up it tax haven blacklist. One set is for the 93 countries it has examined to determine if they have applied transparency and corporate tax rules to fight...
by Alan Rhode | Oct 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Former European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti, who served as the European Union’s antitrust czar in the early 2000s, would hardly be confused was a take-charge battlefield commander determined to crush his opponents. Instead, throughout his...
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