VAT: More flexibility on VAT rates, less red tape for small businesses The European Commission has today proposed new rules to give Member States more flexibility to set Value Added Tax (VAT) rates and to create a better tax environment … read more
In its First Progress Report since the Finance Ministers agreed an Action Plan on reducing non-performing loans (NPLs), the Commission highlights the further improvement in NPL ratios and forthcoming measures to bring NPL stocks down further. Reducing NPLs is important … read more
The Task Force will work under the Chairmanship of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans and will report to the President by 15 July 2018. Scenario 4 in the Commission’s White Paper on the Future of Europe – “Doing less more efficiently … read more
The Commission is presenting its First Progress Report on the Action Plan to tackle non-performing loans (NPLs) in Europe, which Finance Ministers agreed on in July 2017. In this context, the ECOFIN Council agreed to come back to the topic … read more
ESMA published a statement on 15 December 2017 explaining that it was considering the possible use of its product intervention powers under Article 40 of MiFIR to address investor protection concerns posed by the marketing, distribution and sale of CFDs … read more