Publicaties
Presentation of studies of 18 October 2018
EPRS Presentation of studies on Golden Visas, Freeports and Shell Companies
- Draft programme (PDF - 413 KB)
- Webstreaming recording
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Panel I: Golden visas and golden passports
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Panel II: Free ports and customs warehouses
TAX3 Hearing of 15 October 2018
Public hearing on "Golden visas and other national schemes providing tax privileges"
- Draft programme of the hearing (PDF - 175 KB)
- Webstreaming / Recording
- Verbatim report (transcription) (PDF - 528 KB)
- Press release: Golden visas and free ports investigated by EP’s anti money-laundering committee
- Biographies of the speakers (PDF - 292 KB)
- Contribution letter from Philippe Dauvergne, CEO, Le Freeport Luxembourg (PDF - 1 MB)
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Sergio Piazzardi, Policy Officer in charge of the Competitive Industry and Innovation Programme and of the Extractive Sector, DG DEVCO
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Rachel Owens, Head of EU advocacy for Global Witness
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Charles Carr, financial crime expert
TAX3 Hearing of 1st October 2018
Public hearing on "Relations with Switzerland in tax matters and the fight against money laundering"
- Draft programme of the hearing (PDF - 365 KB)
- Webstreaming recording
- Verbatim report (Transcription) (PDF - 427 KB)
- Press release: Switzerland tax practices in the spotlight
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Dieter Kischel, General-Directorate Taxation and Customs Union - European Commission
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Rudolf Elmer, Whistleblower, Switzerland
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Andreas Frank, Former banker and Anti-Money Laundering expert, Switzerland
TAX3 Hearing of 26 September 2018
Public hearing on "Third country dimension in the Fight against Tax crimes, Tax Evasion & Tax Avoidance"
- Draft programme of the hearing (PDF - 377 KB)
- Webstreaming / Recording
- Verbatim report (Transcription) (PDF - 606 KB)
- Press release: Experts quizzed on Brexit and international dimension of tax cooperation
- Biographies of the speakers (PDF - 526 KB)
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Hannah Brejnholt Tranberg, Tax Policy and Programme Manager at Action Aid Denmark
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Eric Mensah, UN Committee on Experts of International Cooperation in Tax Matters
TAX3 hearing of 10 September 2018
Public hearing on "Digital Taxation"
- Draft programme of the hearing (PDF - 350 KB)
- Webstreaming / Recording
- Verbatim report (transcription) (PDF - 333 KB)
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Mr Bart Van Raaij and Mr Eduard Folch Sogas, European Commission, Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (TAXUD)
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Mr Eric Robert, Adviser, BEPS, Taxation and the Digital Economy, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
TAX3 hearing of 28 June 2018
Public hearing on "VAT Fraud"
- Draft programme of the hearing (PDF - 363 KB)
- Press release: The effects of tax fraud studied by TAX3 committee
- Verbatim report (transcription) (PDF - 436 KB)
- Webstreaming / Recording
- Biographies of the speakers (PDF - 1 MB)
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Neven Mates, Member of the European Court of Auditors
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Maite Fabregas Fernandez, Director - DG Taxation and Customs Union - European Commission
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Alma Olofsdottir - Swedish Tax Agency and Chair of Eurofisc
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Richard Murphy, Director of the TAX Research UK
TAX3/TERR joint hearing of 28 June 2018
Joint Public Hearing on "The use of tax frauds -including VAT or carousel fraud- to finance terrorism"
- Draft programme of the hearing (PDF - 390 KB)
- Press release: The effects of tax fraud studied by TAX3 committee
- Verbatim report (transcription) (PDF - 468 KB)
- Webstreaming / Recording
- Biographies of the speakers (PDF - 403 KB)
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Bo Elkjaer, investigative reporter Danish Broadcasting Corporation
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Elena Hach, representative of the Romanian General Attorney Office in the Board of the FIAU
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Marius-Cristian Frunza, Director with Schwarzthal Kapital
TAX3 Hearing of 21 June 2018
Public hearing on "Lessons learnt from the Paradise Papers"
- Draft programme of the hearing (PDF - 388 KB)
- Biographies of the speakers (PDF - 388 KB)
- Press release: EP quizzes Nike, McDonalds, journalists and experts on lessons to take from Paradise Papers
- Webstreaming / Recording
- Verbatim report (transcription) (PDF - 667 KB)
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Lucía Rossel Flores, Researcher at the project “Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators (COFFERS )”
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Juliette Garside (The Guardian), Reporter of ICIJ on Paradise Papers
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Irene Yates, Vice-President Corporate Tax, McDonald’s
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Patricia Johnson, Vice-President and Chief Tax Officer, Nike Inc.
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Background documents
TAX3 Workshop of 7 June 2018
Workshop on "Taxation and fight against Money Laundering: Crypto Currencies, Digitalisation and the European Semester"
- Draft programme of the workshop (PDF - 246 KB)
- Webstreaming / Recording
- Biographies of the speakers (PDF - 635 KB)
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Professor Robby Houben, Antwerp University
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Eli Hadzhieva, Founder and Director at Dialogue for Europe
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John Vella, Professor at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
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Presentation by the Commission on aggressive tax planning in the context of the European Semester
TAX3 hearing of 15 May 2018
Public hearing on "The fight against harmful tax practices within the European Union and abroad"
- Draft programme of the hearing (PDF - 245 KB)
- Press release: Council and Commission pressured to do better on fighting harmful tax practices
- Verbatim report (transcription) (PDF - 676 KB)
- Biographies of the speakers (PDF - 221 KB)
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Emily O’Reilly, European Ombudsman
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Valère Moutarlier, Directorate General of Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission
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Alex Cobham, Chief Executive, Tax Justice Network
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Johan Langerock, EU Policy Advisor for Tax and Inequality, Oxfam