Article | May 21, 2012 - 3:18pm
According to the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat), the average top personal income tax rate and the corporate tax rate in the EU27 has increased in 2012.
Article | April 20, 2012 - 9:35am
The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) announced the recovery of €9 nine million in customs duties after an investigation on a network of companies...
Article | April 10, 2012 - 6:00pm
The Constitutional Court of Bulgaria ruled on 5 April that the proposed tourism tax was not in accordance with the legal norms of the Basic Law.
Article | March 20, 2012 - 6:11pm
Taxation Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta addressed the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee...
Article | February 24, 2012 - 9:46pm
A meeting concerning a carbon-emissions tax for airlines using EU airspace has been held this week in Moscow.
Article | February 9, 2012 - 10:29pm
"I think that when this tax is created, it will be financially productive and economically it will stand up, and politically it will be fair.” These are the latest words from Finance Commissioner Michel Barnier on the proposed Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), although the financial industry is anything but convinced...
Blog entry | February 9, 2012 - 10:14pm
CAPE TOWN – At last, European leaders have revealed their top-secret plan for solving the euro’s crisis. And it is – drum roll – a version of the 'Tobin tax', a levy on financial transactions first suggested in 1972 by the Nobel laureate economist James Tobin.
Article | February 6, 2012 - 5:14pm
The European Commission and the US have resolved one of their most long-standing WTO disputes concerning the US calculation practice of so-called "zeroing" in anti-dumping investigations.
Article | January 30, 2012 - 2:18pm
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans to introduce a 0.1% financial transactions tax, regardless of decisions made at the EU level.
Article | January 13, 2012 - 4:04pm
A proposal adopted on 13 January is a first step towards a One Stop Shop for all electronically delivered services that will benefit businesses as from 1st January 2015, with the aim to alleviate the burdens of doing business in more than one member state.
Article | December 19, 2011 - 1:44pm
In order to continue its work in the field of protecting the financial interests of the EU and member states' budgets, the European Commission has adopted two proposals for the Hercule III and Pericles 2020 programmes. With a budget of €110 million and €7.7m respectively, these programmes will run for seven years from January 2014...
Article | December 8, 2011 - 8:21pm
