MEPs investigate how tax authorities can be better empowered
Tax authority representatives laid out their most pressing concerns to MEPs during a hearing aimed at identifying how to better support these authorities.
The hearing, organised on Tuesday afternoon in the EP’s Tax matters subcommittee, gave the opportunity to MEPs to hear from Portugal’s Tax and Customs Authority, the Union of Finance Personnel in Europe, the Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrations, and Lithuania’s Tax Inspectorate Trade Union. Their interventions can be found here.
Opening the hearing, the Chair of the subcommittee, Paul Tang (S&D, NL) said that helping tax administrations to better do their job was one of the top priorities of the agenda of tax reform. Key to this was to identify how well the EU rules on tax administrative cooperation (DAC) were performing and how to improve them, as well as pinpointing ways to ramp up the digitalisation of tax administrations.
MEPs who took the floor wanted to know how tax administrations have adapted their recruitment profiles to take into account digitalisation, what other legislation legislators should be focussing on other than DAC, and whether a stronger role for the Commission and the EU on tax administration cooperation would be helpful. MEPs also had questions on specific areas of tax policy, notably VAT and withholding tax.
You can follow the hearing again here.
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