Brussels, 29/04/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 28 April, the European Commission sent a reasoned opinion to friends calling on it to comply with the judgement of the Court of Justice of the EU (case C-310/09) of September 2011, which stipulates that the French law on withholding tax runs counter to Community law.
The withholding tax was a fiscal mechanism created in 1965 in French law and removed in 2004, and which aimed to avoid double economic taxation on dividends distributed by...