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    EP tax investigation

    On 26 October, the European Parliament's special committee investigating tax issues voted on a report summarising the findings of the investigation so far. While the Greens voted in favour of the report, which contains some ambitious proposals, we criticise the incomplete nature of the investigation, with member states and corporations re…
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    EP tax investigation

    The European Parliament's special committee investigating tax issues yesterday evening voted on a report, summarising the findings of the investigation so far. While the Greens voted in favour of the report, which contains some ambitious proposals, the group has argued that the investigation is ...
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    State aid/Fiat-Starbucks

    The European Commission today presented its findings of investigations into illegal state aid regarding special tax agreements benefitting Fiat (in Luxembourg) and Starbucks (in the Netherlands) (1). The Commission found that the 'tax rulings', which enabled the companies to relocate their profits ...
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    Tax Justice

    This is mission (almost) impossible. A few hours in a secured room in the European Commission to look into over 800 pages of complex tax documents discussed by EU Member States since 2010, with no possibility to take notes out or mention anything that you have read on the premises. This is the miss...
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    Mission Impossible

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    Greens/EFA Round up

    Greens/EFA priorities for the Brussels plenary included, car pollution rules in Europe after the Volkswagen scandal; air pollution and industrial emissions rules; Hollande and Merkel; Turkey's worrying escalation; Syria; EU payment service rules; Corporate tax avoidance, rulings and the EU response; Data, privacy rights and the Facebook r…
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    EU payment service rules

    The European Parliament today voted to adopt new EU legislation on payment services within the EU. The new rules include provisions scrapping surcharges on credit and debit cards, which should come into force within two years. Commenting after the vote, Green finance spokesperson Eva Joly said: &quo...
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    EU tax rules

    EU finance ministers today adopted new EU rules on information exchange between member states on taxation and, notably, the tax rulings agreed with corporations, which were the subject of the Luxembourg leaks revelations. The final legislation agreed by finance ministers is weaker than what had been...
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    Capital Markets Union

    The European Commission today presented an action plan on creating the much-anticipated Capital Markets Union, setting out measures it intends to propose to this end. Commenting on the action plan, Green economic and finance spokesperson Sven Giegold said: "Creating a Capital Markets Union is a...
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    Big companies paying their fair share of taxes

    This week, the European Commission published the outcome of its online public consultation on fiscal transparency. Following the Luxleaks scandal, the European Commission promised some concrete actions in 2015 to promote greater tax transparency, in order to ensure that companies pay their fair sha...