Economic and Financial Affairs Council, 12 March 2019

Summary:

A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council was held on 12 March 2019. The agenda includes the following items:

• Adoption of a revised EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes;
• Discussion on measures to improve the business environment for excise goods and on the following legislative initiatives:
  • Directive on general arrangements for excise duty;
  • Regulation on administrative cooperation on the content of electronic registers;
  • Directive on the structures of excise duty on alcohol and alcoholic beverages;
• Briefing on the progress achieved in the negotiations relating to a digital services tax;
• Discussion on the issue of the location of InvestEU's investment committee secretariat;
• Presentation by the European Commission on several aspects of the Winter Package in the framework of the European Semester cycle;
• Adoption of general approach on package relating to the VAT regime for e-commerce.

European Commission: Remarks by Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis at the ECOFIN press conference, 12 March 2019 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-19-1650_en.htm

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