MEPs of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) examined, on Thursday 15 February, the amendments to the draft report on the ‘Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation’ (BEFIT) initiative(see EUROPE B13349A26). They stressed the importance of taking account in this text of the directive transposing pillar II of the OECD agreement on the minimum international taxation of multinationals, which came into force on 1 January (see EUROPE...