Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) would like to provide the following comments with a distinction between its assessment of DAC 1-5 on the one hand, and DAC 6 on the other hand. The purpose of DAC 1-5 is essentially to regulate administrative cooperation between the tax authorities of the Member States in the area of direct taxation and to enable requests for official investigations in other Member States. Most of the data and information collected and exchanged under the DAC, especially under the automatic exchange of information (AEOI) pursuant to DAC 3, provides Member State authorities with information relevant to the objective of the Directive (combat tax fraud and…

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The bloc has chosen to take a coordinated approach to avoid member states creating domestic legislation that is inconsistent with that of neighbouring countries.” Heavier regulation in the EU than in…