by Alan Rhode | Sep 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
When, last March, the European Commission took the unprecedented step of proposing a short-term transaction tax on certain digital services such as targeted advertising and intermediate services, for instance as those supplied...
by Alan Rhode | Aug 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last Tuesday’s fall of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, my hometown, is the umpteenth infrastructural tragedy to hit the city in recent years. On 9 October 2014, a flood ravaged the city centre. After a prolonged, massive rain,...
by Alan Rhode | Aug 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
When the European Union agreed to launch the EU single market in 1992, one of the most politically difficult political and economic issues it faced revolved around establishing a harmonised Value Added Tax regime that did not create...
by Alan Rhode | Aug 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Many political commentators and tax experts have written off the pending European Union’s Digital Service Tax (DST) as a political dream that will never get the unanimous backing of all 28 EU member states needed for...
by Alan Rhode | Jul 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
It is no coincidence that the EU most important decision-making body conducts the overwhelming majority of its business behind closed doors. Because the process can often be unconventional. These days,...
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