Fiscal & Taxation Publications
January 1, 2017
Published by IEA on January 1, 2017
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The past record of industrial policy in the UK is a catalogue of waste and ineffectiveness. By the end of the 1970s it was widely accepted that the strategy of attempting to pick winners and promoting national champions was fundamentally flawed.
December 14, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on December 14, 2016
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The development of personal pensions at the national and cross-border levels is hindered by high compulsory payments to public pension funds, restrictions on the participation of the self-employed and the unemployed, rules governing access to retirement savings, taxation of retirement income and other national legal requirements.
December 14, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on December 14, 2016
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The development of personal pensions at the national and cross-border levels is hindered by high compulsory payments to public pension funds, restrictions on the participation of the self-employed and the unemployed, rules governing access to retirement savings, taxation of retirement income and other national legal requirements.
November 1, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on November 1, 2016
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November 30 marks Credit Day across the European Union. Credit Day is the day when member states’ central administrations exhaust their annual tax revenues and have to begin borrowing in order to meet their spending commitments for the rest of the year.
October 23, 2016
Published by EPICENTER on October 23, 2016
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The European Commission (EC) has renewed its proposals on the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) initiative.
September 15, 2015
Published by EPICENTER on September 15, 2015
From 2016, e-cigarettes will face additional regulation under Article 20 of the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). Given that non-smokers have so far shown little interest in e-cigarettes, critics argue that discouraging ‘vaping’ amounts to encouraging smoking and that some of the new regulations will damage health by raising prices and reducing the appeal of products which, if smokers switched to them, would save lives. However, Member States have some latitude in implementing the TPD.
