CFE Tax Advisers Europe has now published its EU Tax Policy Report covering the second semester of 2020. The EU Tax Policy Report is a bi-annual publication which provides a detailed analysis of significant primary law and tax policy developments at both EU and international level that have occurred in the previous six months [...]
CFE Tax Advisers Europe (Confédération Fiscale Européenne) is the leading European association of tax advisers, uniting the tax institutes and professional bodies of tax advisers from 24 countries, associated with more than 600,000 individual members with the Global Tax Advisers Platform. We are actively engaged in the technical and policy work of the EU Institutions, [...]
The CFE Tax Advisers Europe, in cooperation with IBFD, published its Annual Report for 2020. We invite you to read the Annual Report and remain available for any questions or comments that you may have. DOWNLOAD ANNUAL REPORT
Submissions are now invited for CFE’s 2020 Albert J. Rädler Medal Award. The award was established in 2013 in order to encourage and reward academic excellence in European taxation, as well as to recognise Professor Albert J. Rädler’s esteemed contribution to the field of taxation within Europe. In order to be eligible to apply, an applicant must have [...]
BRUSSELS | 14 DECEMBER 2020 AG Kokott: Belgian Excess Profit Rulings Constitute 'State Aid Scheme' Advocate General Kokott issued an Opinion in Case C-337/19 P Commission v Belgium and Magnetrol International NV (Belgian Excess Profit Rulings). According to AG Kokott, the Commission rightly classified the Belgian practice of downward adjustments to profits of multinational group [...]
BRUSSELS | 7 DECEMBER 2020 CFE's 13th European Professional Affairs Conference CFE’s 13th European Webinar Conference on Tax Advisers’ Professional Affairs was held virtually on Monday, 30 November 2020, on the topic of “Taxpayer Rights and Legal Certainty in the Digital Era”, examining European and global developments in the protection of taxpayers’ rights and the [...]
CFE has published an Opinion Statement prepared by the CFE ECJ Task Force on the cases Ireland v Commission (T-778/16) and Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe v Commission (T-892/16), decided by the General Court (GC) on the 15 July 2020. This follows the earlier judgments rendered by the GC in the Starbucks [...]
BRUSSELS | 5 OCTOBER 2020 EU Commission Publishes VAT E-Commerce Rules Explanatory Notes The European Commission has published Explanatory Notes on the E-Commerce Rules introduced under Directive 2017/2455 in December 2017 and Directive 2019/1995 in November 2019. The e-commerce rules were introduced as part of the EU Commission’s Digital Strategy, to simplify VAT obligations on cross-border sale [...]
BRUSSELS | SEPTEMBER 2020 New CFE Executive Board Appointed by General Assembly CFE Tax Advisers Europe is pleased to announce that a new Executive Board for the period of 2021-2022 was elected at its online General Assembly on 25 September 2020. The new Executive Board will take up their duties on 1 January 2021. The General Assembly, the [...]
BRUSSELS | 14 SEPTEMBER 2020 Informal ECOFIN Meeting: 11 & 12 September An informal ECOFIN meeting was held in Berlin from 11 to 12 September, with finance ministers meeting for the first time in person since March, received by German Finance Minister Olaf Scholtz. Ministers discussed EU recovery from COVID-19, the EU budget and own [...]
