Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Main results

EU News 371/2015

Council of the European Union
Brussels
08/12/2015

Corporate taxation

The Council took a number of decisions on corporate taxation.
It adopted a directive on cross-border tax rulings, which will improve transparency on tax rulings given by member states to companies about how taxation will be dealt with.

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The Council discussed interrelated measures aimed at preventing corporate tax evasion. It adopted conclusions on the future of a code of conduct on business taxation and on implementation of OECD work on tax base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS). It also reviewed progress on international anti-BEPS aspects of a proposal for an EU common consolidated corporate tax base.

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Capital markets union

The Council endorsed an agreement reached at committee level on the development of a securitisation market in Europe, part of broader plans for a capital markets union.

Source and additional information:
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/ecofin/2015/12/08/

From left to right: Mr Valdis DOMBROVSKIS, Vice President of the European Commission; Mr Pierre GRAMEGNA, Luxembourg Minister of Finance. 'The European Union' URL

 

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