September 15, 2017
In a recent joint letter to the Commission, Germany, France, Italy and Spain’s finance ministers announced plans to tax tech multinationals, such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc./Google, based on their local revenue.
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September 1, 2017
The ongoing Basel IV discussions seek to impose additional capital requirement on banks, a move that would disproportionately affect those in Europe.
September 1, 2017
On 15 August, Air Berlin was forced to file for bankruptcy after the withdrawal of funding from Abu-Dhabi based Etihad Airways, which holds 29 percent stake in the German carrier.
August 10, 2017
The European sovereign debt crisis that followed the 2008 financial crisis has pushed Europe to radically reform its financial rules.
August 1, 2017
According to the Commission, the new CCCTB initiative is the most ambitious corporate tax reform ever proposed in the EU. However, despite the most noble intentions, the proposal presents a number of fundamental problems.
August 1, 2017
On 28 September 2017, the European Parliament Employment and Social Affairs Committee (EMPL) will vote on an initiative by Spanish MEP Javi Lopez (S&D) on combating inequalities as a lever to boost job creation and growth.
July 27, 2017
The purpose of this study is to compare the tax and social security burdens of individual employees earning typical salaries in each of the 28 member states of the European Union and, in doing so, to determine a “tax liberation day” — measuring how much of each year’s work is devoted to paying taxes — for workers in each country.
July 21, 2017
The European Commission seems unable to decide the primary function of the CCCTB; is it mainly an anti-tax-avoidance scheme or is it an exercise in harmonisation?
July 16, 2017
During his recent electoral campaign, the defeated socialist French presidential candidate, Benoît Hamon, repeatedly hinted at a potentially radical proposal: To impose a tax on robots.