Tax & Legal

At an informal meeting in Prague, the finance ministers of France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany published a joint statement on global effective minimum taxation ("Pillar 2").

In its sitting on 25 May 2018, the ECOFIN council formally accepted the Directive to amend the Mutual Assistance Directive 2011/16/EU to provide for the mandatory exchange of information in the area of taxation for reportable cross-border arrangements.