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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10517
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) taxation

Avoiding double inheritance tax

Brussels, 15/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 15 December, the European Commission unveiled a raft of measures to tackle double taxation and discrimination over cross-border inheritance - problems that are very difficult for ordinary people but which generate only a fraction of state income (0.5%). The Commission has given guidelines to the member states to help them ensure their legislation does not run counter to EU anti-discrimination and freedom of circulation rules.

Given the...

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