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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10987
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INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) commission

De Gucht gains upper hand over Belgian tax service

Brussels, 18/12/2013 (Agence Europe) - Vindicated in the Court of Appeal, Belgian Commissioner Karel De Gucht is unlikely to be troubled at his trial, in 2015, over a tax fraud case which dates back to before his term in office at the Commission.

In an interim ruling, the Court of Appeal of Ghent stated on 17 December that the Belgian special tax inspection service, which suspects De Gucht of tax fraud, did not have enough evidence to examine the accounts of the former Belgian foreign...

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