EASTERN EUROPE – TAX
October 1st, 2003
BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is piling pressure on the 10 eastern and southern European countries joining the organisation next May to abolish tax laws that currently break EU regulations and directives. The EU Council of Ministers has drawn up a list of 30 tax measures deemed "harmful" to Europe's internal market that apply in the countries planning to join the EU next year, namely Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Cyprus and Malta.The council is demanding that these corporate tax measures ...
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