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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11561

31 May 2016
ECONOMY - FINANCE / (ae) taxation
Special committee TAXE2 wants legislative initiatives on “patents boxes”

Brussels, 30/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - The MEPs of the special committee TAXE2 are to call upon the European Commission to present legislative proposals on “patent boxes”, taxation regimes favourable to intellectual property, according to the draft report published on Monday 30 May.

The draft report “notes that until now, patent, knowledge and R&D boxes have not proven effective in fostering innovation in the Union, but are, rather, used by multinationals” in their aggressive tax...

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