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Poland poses last obstacle to EU Council agreement on directive transposing OECD agreement on minimum taxation of multinational groups in EU

Brussels, 30/03/2022 (Agence Europe)

At the meeting of ambassadors of the Member States to the EU (Coreper) on Wednesday 30 March, the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union presented a new compromise proposal on the directive aimed at transposing the OECD agreement reforming the taxation of large companies into EU pillar II.

While several countries had expressed doubts about the dossier at the Ecofin Council in early March (see EUROPE B12908A24), only Poland stuck to its guns on Wednesday.

Indeed, the Polish...