Tax
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Financial transactions tax could raise €30 billion a year
Barroso to push for financial transaction tax
Member states offer compromise on economic rules
Finance ministers delay Greek loan decision until July
Cross border? Furious!
A taxing transatlantic challenge
Social Democrats win Portuguese elections
Socialists concede defeat after exit polls give victory to Social Democrats.
Irish pessimism over support for interest-rate cut
France wants a change to corporate tax rate tied to any rate cut.
Eight countries object to common corporate tax plan
Concerns focus on the impact on competitiveness and on the costs to business
Raising Ireland’s corporate tax rate ‘would slow down recovery’
Irish government steps up defence of its corporate-tax policy.
Finance ministers agree €78bn bail-out for Portugal
Juncker refuses to rule out debt “reprofiling” for Greece.
Concern over corporate tax plans
Ireland raises the most significant objections to the proposal.
Hungary pushes for harmonised savings tax
Finance ministers to discuss banking secrecy.
Officials mulling changes to Greek bail-out
Greece could get extra funds to cover debts in 2012 and 2013.
Portuguese crisis sidelines Ireland
Fresh crisis in the eurozone keeps debate about Irish interest rate and tax off agenda of EU summit.
Saving the eurozone the Merkel way
Member states fall into line with German demands, but there are only limited changes to bail-out mechanism in ‘euro-pact’.
• Pressure mounts on Ireland’s new government
Progress on changes to bail-out fund
Eurozone finance ministers will meet again next week to finalise details on how to expand lending capacity.
Semeta seeks tax co-ordination
Commission plans to harmonise EU corporate tax systems.
Schulz blasts Semeta over financial tax stance
Commissioner says EU-only tax would be “irresponsible”.
Estonian government wins election
Prime Minister Andrus Ansip is in a position to form a majority coalition.
Fine Gael, Labour agree to form governing coalition
New Irish government will seek easier terms for EU-IMF bail-out.
Robin Hood: a tax for our times
The EU should implement a financial transaction tax.
Fine Gael set to form new Irish government
Fine Gael, Labour win record number of seats while voters punish Fianna Fail.
Taxing questions
Trouble for the Maltese in Brussels. The Maltese authorities are fond of buying expensive bits of real estate in other countries, and Dar Malta in Brussels is …
Banking secrecy threatens to derail savings tax talks
Luxembourg and Austria aim to maintain secrecy but Hungary seeks to strike deal on tax in May.
Irish opposition leaders lobby Barroso on bail-out terms
Fine Gael open to German debt brake idea
Estonia gives a lift to troubled eurozone
Baltic state becomes 17th country to switch to single currency.
Šemeta seeks to eliminate double taxation
Commission seeks to outline ways of bringing more compatibility to member states’ tax systems.
Deal reached on sharing tax information
Draft directive aims to tackle tax evasion.
Agreement nears on tax co-operation deal
Proposals extend scope of savings tax directive but there is a reluctance to abandon secrecy.