The European Commission has today launched a public consultation on whether the EU should take action to create disincentives for tax advisors and other intermediaries that help taxpayers design structures to facilitate tax evasion or avoidance.
The paper is applicable to tax consultants, lawyers, financial advisors, accountants, solicitors, financial institutions, insurance intermediaries, company-formation agents, and other types of advisors and intermediaries.
The paper asks stakeholders how to classify tax schemes as potentially aggressive, what the EU’s policy objectives should be in the area, whether new EU tax transparency and reporting measures should be adopted, whether national tax authorities should share information about aggressive tax planning schemes with other EU tax authorities, and whether EU level code of conduct should be adopted for intermediaries.
The consultation will run until February 16, 2017.
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