GUE/NGL is currently working on its second annual Award for ‘Journalists, Whistleblowers and Defenders of the Right to Information’. The award was established in 2018 in honour of the assassinated Maltese journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, and last year it was jointly awarded to the murdered...
Photo @Simon Dannhauer / Shutterstock The Council published today its revision of the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. It is interesting to note that the underlying maths of the Council's communication do not add up, nor do they match previous communications. However, by comparing...
The vote of the TAX3 Committee draft report took place yesterday morning. Thanks to the negotiations by its shadow rapporteur, Miguel Urbán Crespo (Podemos, Spain), GUE/NGL got 114 of the 167 amendments it had originally presented into the text and/or amendments voted in Committee. For an analysis...
The final vote in the TAX3 committee on tax avoidance has been overwhelmingly endorsed by MEPs today with, for the first time, the role of the auditing sectors and the impact of money laundering on women’s rights included in the final report. In addition, recommendations for...
Irish MEP Matt Carthy has questioned EU Competition Commissioner Margarethe Vestager regarding Apple’s new tax arrangements in Ireland, and whether they may constitute further illegal state aid to the technology giant by the Irish government. Addressing Commissioner Vestager during a hearing of the European Parliament’s TAX3...