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The European Commission has published a taxation paper on tax certainty. The paper analyses main sources of tax uncertainty, reviews the economic and empirical literature on the ...

The European Commission has published its long-anticipated White Paper on the Future of the EU 27 by 2025. The paper was launched in view of the Rome Summit on 25 March...

The next meeting of the OECD Global Forum on VAT will take place on 12-14 April in Paris. This time, the discussions will focus on the policy and ...

The UK House of Commons has published a briefing on the potential implications of Brexit for the applicability of EU tax rules in the UK. ..

A recent EU report (https://static.rasset.ie/documents/news/onlineshopping.pdf) has highlighted that shoppers are still experiencing discrimination because of their nationality and country of residence. The report found that ...

The European Commission has published the summary of responses to its consultation on reduced VAT rates for electronically supplied publications (see FEE Tax Policy Update from 5 August for...

The EU Finance Ministers have made a number of tax related decisions during their latest ECOFIN meeting. Of particular interest, the Ministers adopted their conclusions on the ...

The European Commission has published VAT gap statistics for the year 2014. According to the figures, the total EU VAT gap amounted to €159.5 billion...

As from 1^st October 2016 the IVA has been re-appointed as a member of the VAT Expert Group (VEG) with Stephen Dale as main representative and Emmanuel Cotessat as alternate...

The UK HMRC has published new guidance aimed at tax advisors. The guidance is aimed at all who “promote tax compliance” and offer “to represent or give advice to other taxpayers”...