14/10/2022 (Agence Europe) – The European Tax Adviser Federation (ETAF) states that regulated tax advisers should be excluded from the scope of the proposed Directive to combat the role of facilitators of tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning (Securing the Activity Framework for Enablers or ‘SAFE’). The European Commission’s public consultation on the subject, which ended on Wednesday 12 October, was the occasion for the Commission to state its position. ETAF also says that before adding new measures, a thorough evaluation of the existing regulation is needed. In its view, regulated tax advisers are not ‘facilitators’, but rather ‘preventers’ of aggressive tax planning. ETAF also considers that the material scope should remain limited to complex structures in non-EU countries and is not in favour of the creation of a European register. (AD)