Addressing MEPs who hit out at the reluctance of the member states to take resolute action against tax optimisation during a plenary session debate on the Paradise Papers scandal on Tuesday 14 November, the European Commissioner for Taxation, Pierre Moscovici, opened “two areas of work for the future”. Firstly, we have to “help the European states and others which have made a bit of evasion a state business to develop a different economic and social model”. Secondly, we need to...