Europe News EU member states push forward with new tax transparency rules A majority of EU states agreed last week to press ahead with tax transparency laws for the world's largest multinational companies. 02/03/2021
Spain Former Spanish king pays €4.4 million in bid to settle tax situation The payment marks Juan Carlos I's second attempt to regularise past undeclared income. 26/02/2021
Europe News EU nations back plans for prosecutors office to fight financial fraud The European Commission estimates at least 50-billion euros per year is lost because of cross-border VAT fraud. 08/06/2017
Europe News The Brief from Brussels: MEPs set to unveil rights prize winner This is the Brief from Brussels, a roundup of all the top stories from Europe’s de facto political capital. 26/10/2016
Europe News Ex-EU official Kroes under pressure over Bahamas directorship Just two months after its former president joined Goldman Sachs, the European Commission has been caught up in another corporate scandal. 22/09/2016
Europe News EU launches official one-year inquiry into Panama Papers scandal The inquiry committee will have 65 members and will report back in one year 08/06/2016
state of the union Europe Weekly: MEPs tackle tax avoidance and terrorism In this week’s edition of Europe Weekly: MEPs back a new law to share air passenger data between EU countries; the European Parliament vows to get 15/04/2016
Europe News EU tells big firms to be more transparent on tax EU regulators have called on major multinationals to be more transparent in their tax dealings. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm 12/04/2016
Europe News Transparency campaigners warn against inaction on offshore tax schemes The Panama Papers was the biggest data leak in history. Consisting of more than 11 million emails and files from a law firm specialising in offshore 04/04/2016
Unreported Europe The women who knew too much: the price to pay for whistleblowers “The woman who really knew too much” is how Stephanie Gibaud has described herself. It’s also the title of a book published last year by the former 29/01/2016
Europe News EU orders Belgium to claw back extra taxes from major firms EU regulators have told Belgium to claw back 700 million euros in extra taxes after they ruled 35 multinationals had benefitted from an illegal tax 11/01/2016
Europe News One year after Lux Leaks, European Union members still fail to crack down on tax avoidance, say NGOs New research from European NGOs claim 22 European Union member states are allowing corporations avoid tax despite the revelations from the Lux Leaks scandal this time last year. 03/11/2015
Europe News EU roasts Starbucks, slams Fiat Chrysler over 'illegal' tax deals Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler should pay back between 20 and 30 million euros in taxes after the European Commission ruled on Wednesday that illegal 21/10/2015
Europe News OECD aims to rewrite global tax rulebook OECD has unveiled further proposals that aim to crack down on companies that avoid tax. The package of 15 proposed reforms will be presented to G20 05/10/2015
Europe News EU unveils tax transparency plans The EU has unveiled a new bill that aims to create greater transparency on tax in Europe. The proposed legislation comes after a series of 18/03/2015
Europe News European Parliament shuns committee of inquiry into LuxLeaks The European Parliament has failed to set up a committee of inquiry into the LuxLeaks affairs. Parliamentarians wanted to investigate how and why 05/02/2015
state of the union Europe Weekly: Juncker's Lux Leaks tax row rumbles on In this edition of Europe Weekly: European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker breaks his silence on the ‘Lux Leaks’ tax row; the European Court 14/11/2014
My Europe Series Combating offshore accounts The leaked list of names spans the globe, with current and former officials who stashed their cash in offshore accounts evading onerous taxes back 02/05/2013
