European experts recommended simplifying tax systems to improve competitiveness in the internal market, at a public hearing of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Tax Matters on Tuesday 13 February. In particular, they criticised the texts currently under discussion.
According to Jost Heckemeyer, associate researcher at the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, the complexity of texts in the average EU Member State is around 50% higher than in...