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...
by Alan Rhode | Sep 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
They might not have a Greta Thornberg to champion the cause of fighting climate change but Finland is no less committed to the cause. For example it, along with Chile, has been co-steering a group of finance ministers from around the...
by Alan Rhode | Sep 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Perhaps, former European Commission president Romano Prodi’s most indelible legacy during his five-year term at the helm of the EU executive body in the late 1990s occurred when he dubbed the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact as...
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