The press conference called by the Commissioner for Taxation, Pierre Moscovici, to present his new measures to tackle VAT fraud (see EUROPE 11915), ended up focusing on the forthcoming blacklist of non-cooperative jurisdictions in taxation matters.
The Commission has distanced itself from the final result of this list, which will be announced on Tuesday, following a meeting of the European finance ministers. “It will be the member states' list”, he stressed, as he did two days earlier at...