Fiscal & Taxation Briefings
November 22, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on November 22, 2017
The picture that emerges from the EC surveys of consumers and business regarding platforms is not of a market in which users are routinely abused. Rather, what we observe is a market where users are broadly happy, although they agree that things could always be better. Crucially, they have ways to make their discontent heard.
October 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on October 1, 2017
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Posted workers are temporarily sent from one member state to another, usually for projects of short duration. There were 1.1. million posted workers in the EU in 2015, equivalent to 0.4 per cent of all full-time employment.
September 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on September 1, 2017
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On 15 June 2017, the Directorate General for Internal Policies published a report which maps the recent history of privatisation and examines the risk of precarious work in privatised utilities.
September 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on September 1, 2017
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The ongoing Basel IV discussions seek to impose additional capital requirement on banks, a move that would disproportionately affect those in Europe.
August 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on August 1, 2017
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By performing an econometric analysis on the Fraser Institute’s “Economic Freedom of the World: Annual Report 2015,” it is found that EU membership is positively associated with economic freedom.
August 1, 2017
Published by EPICENTER on August 1, 2017
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According to the Commission, the new CCCTB initiative is the most ambitious corporate tax reform ever proposed in the EU. However, despite the most noble intentions, the proposal presents a number of fundamental problems.
