Brussels, 29/10/2012 (Agence Europe) - France, Spain, Malta, Germany, Belgium and Greece are the EU member states with the highest company tax and average investment tax as at 1 July 2011, while the lowest rates are found in Bulgaria, the Baltic States, Ireland and Romania. This emerged from a 2011 interim report on effective taxation rates in the expanded EU, drawn up for the European Commission by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), published on 23 October 2012.
The report...