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The European Commission proposed detailed technical amendments to VAT rules on 25 May to make the system more fraud-resilient. It would end the 25 year old 'transitional' regime by creating a single EU VAT area to help to shut down the estimated €50 billion in fraud a year. Under the current system, trade in goods between businesses is split between a VAT-exempt sale in the member state of origin and ...
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The European Commission has launched an evaluation of the current block exemption of shipping line consortia. The European Shippers’ Council says it is preparing its own response, but individual shippers are also free to participate. ESC said shippers had raised a number of concerns over competition issues. The Block Exemption ...
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The CORE four-year €50 million European research project to create trusted and transparent trade lanes will be brought formally to a close at an event at the Stanhope hotel in Brussels on 11 April. A final event will bring together shippers, freight forwarders, transport providers, and authorities to demonstrate the ...
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The European Commission has fined five car carrying shipping lines €395 million for taking part in cartels and breaking EU antitrust rules. It found that CSAV, "K" Line, MOL, NYK and WWL-EUKOR participated in a cartel for the intercontinental maritime transport of vehicles.
It was part of a wider action by ...
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EU institutions provisionally agreed on new rules on 14 December to make cross-border parcel delivery tariffs more transparent and allow regulators to better monitor the market.
The provisional agreement by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission needs to be finally approved by the Parliament and the Council and is ...
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The European Commission revealed new tools to make the EU's VAT system more fraud-proof and close loopholes on 30 November, including measures to prevent facilitation measures being exploited by criminals.
Currently, goods that arrive from outside the EU with a final destination of one member state can arrive into the EU ...
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‘Lost’ value added tax by EU member states is “shocking”, said the European Commission’s head of taxation and customs, Pierre Moscovici, following publication of a new report on the ‘VAT Gap’.
In the report, published on 28 September, he said that EU countries lost an estimated total of €152 billion in ...
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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) said that while it welcomed publication of the long-awaited European Commission proposals for commercial road transport and which contained many positive elements, the proposals failed to bring clarity and simplicity.
IRU welcomed the solutions to specific problems including strengthening of rules of establishment, making it ...
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The European Commission has approved new state aid rules that it says will simplify rules on state aid for ports and airports in the EU’s outermost regions.
Member States can now make public investments in regional airports handling up to 3 million passengers per year without prior control by the Commission. ...
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EU trade commissioner Jyrki Katainen said in mid-February that the EU would be prepared to take legal action should the US try to impose a “border tax” against its imports. In an article published in the Financial Times Katainen also warned that such a move trigger expedited action at the ...
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