On Tuesday 22 November, the European Parliament adopted the report by Emmanuel Maurel (S&D, France), calling on the member states to automatically exchange information on the beneficial owners of trusts and shell companies, by a more than comfortable majority (590 votes in favour, 32 against and 64 abstentions).
At the start of November, the Ecofin Council reached an agreement in principle to allow the national tax authorities to have access to this information, in the framework of...