MOSCOVICI PROMISES PROGRESS ON COMMON CORPORATE TAX BASE RULES

FORMER French finance minister Pierre Moscovici has promised to push two existing European Union (EU) proposals on energy taxation and the creation of a common corporate tax base, once he starts work as the new European Union (EU) Commissioner for economic and financial affairs, taxation and customs. He told a European Parliament hearing he also hopes to resolve how to tax the digital economy. He added he strongly backed enacting a new EU financial transaction tax during a grilling by MEPs was dominated by questions about his failure to comply with EU budget ...


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