anti-avoidance measures

tax avoidance [ tax haven | tax havens(UNBIS) ]

anti tax avoidance package | anti-tax-avoidance package | ATAP [Abbr.]

Anti Tax Avoidance Directive | Anti-Tax-Avoidance Directive | ATAD [Abbr.]

Departmental Coordinating Committee on Anti-Evasion, Smuggling and Fraud

fire fighting facilities | fire fighting medium | means of extinction

erosion control device

Improved Control of Animal Trypanosomiasis

tax harmonisation [ harmonisation of tax systems | tax harmonization ]

The changes proposed today will tackle new means of terrorist financing, increase transparency to combat money laundering and help strengthen the fight against tax avoidance.

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The Anti Tax Avoidance Directive sets out five key anti-avoidance measures, which all Member States should apply, to counter-act some of the most common types of aggressive tax planning (as identified in the discussions at the OECD, in Council discussions on tax avoidance and in the Study on Aggressive Tax Planning that we also published on 28 January).

3. Notes that tax resources remain low as a proportion of GDP in most developing countries, making them particularly vulnerable to the tax evasion and avoidance activities of individual taxpayers and companies; stresses that this represents a considerable financial loss for developing countries that encourages corruption and harms EU development policy, and that taking appropriate measures at national, EU and international level against these practice ...[+++]s should be a top priority for the EU and its Member States, taking into account the needs and constraints that developing countries face in gaining access to their tax revenues; considers that the EU should be taking a leading role in driving international efforts to combat tax havens, tax fraud and evasion, leading by example, and that it should cooperate with developing countries in counteracting aggressive tax avoidance practices by certain transnational companies, as well as in seeking ways to help them withstand pressures to engage in tax competition;