by Alan Rhode | Oct 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dammed up for almost two years, the Value Added Tax legislative reform floodgates opened after EU finance ministers finally agreed last week (Oct. 2) new rules that will allow EU member states the option to lower Value Added Tax rates...
by Alan Rhode | Oct 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Over the past decade, the United Kingdom has become by far the biggest European Union hub for electronic commerce imports from around the world. Experts in the postal industry insist that currently one-third of all EU imported electronic...
by Alan Rhode | Sep 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
In 2009, the European Court of Justice ruled that copying and reproducing just 11 words of a new article can infringe EU copyright law. That decision, involving a Danish news aggregator and a Danish publishing company, will...
by Alan Rhode | Sep 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
When European Union finance ministers meet behind closed doors to negotiate tax issues the conclusions they draw in public can often be described as a “Tale of Two Councils”. That was certainly the case Saturday, after Austria pushed EU...
by Alan Rhode | Sep 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
European Union presidency holder Austria will push EU finance ministers to finalize by the end of 2018 the scope for the temporary transaction tax on large internet companies such as Google, Facebook,...
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...
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