13/04/2016 (Agence Europe) - EP get-go for extending minimum VAT rate until 2018. On Tuesday 12 April, the EP approved the extension for a further three years (until the end of 2018) of the minimum VAT rate of 15%. The European Commission had advocated extending this rate until the end of 2017 but an amendment voted for during the EP's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee on 16 March, extended this by a year (see EUROPE 11506 et 11513). The EP voted for this text with 586 votes in favour,...