Brussels, 01/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - The special committee TAXE II of the European Parliament may well ultimately have an extended mandate, firstly including the elements of the mandate of TAXE I, but also tasked with monitoring the implementation of the recommendations of the EP and of the OECD by the member states.
This, in principle, is what the presidents of the groups of the European Parliament will decide this Wednesday 2 December. They will also be tasked with deciding whether or not the special committee should investigate VAT fraud, which the EPP group has been requesting for several days, or whether the economic and monetary committee of the EP should draw up a separate report on this issue. If TAXE II is given the go-ahead by the conference of the presidents, the EP will rubber-stamp its creation on the same afternoon at a mini plenary session. The TAXE II committee will therefore be set in place for six months from 1 December, with the same members and, theoretically, the same rapporteurs. The investigation work into the practices of the member states and compliance with their obligations will continue, as will the battle for access to the documents of the 'corporate taxation: conduct' group. (Original version in French by Elodie Lamer)