MEPs on the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC) debated, on Monday 9 January, the draft own-initiative report on the massive data leak of the ‘Pandora Papers’. While there is a consensus on the protection of whistleblowers and the press, who are at the origin of these revelations(see EUROPE B13053A23), some MEPs insisted on not pointing the finger at Member States and individuals guilty of tax evasion.
According to rapporteur Niels Fuglsang (S&D, Danish), 183...