EU finance ministers did not make any significant breakthrough on Friday 18 June in Luxembourg on the European Commission’s 2018 proposal to give Member States the freedom to set reduced, super-reduced and zero VAT rates (EUROPE B11940A15).
“There is this question which remains on how to find the right compromise of ensuring equal treatment and at the same time avoiding too much proliferation of derogations”, concluded Portuguese Finance Minister João Leão after the meeting.
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