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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8351

30 November 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation
Luxembourg and Austria are opposed to adopting directive on savings tax - Agreement on "tax package" is increasingly unlikely

Brussels, 29/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - While Luxembourg and Austria announced they were opposed to the adoption of the directive on savings tax as there was no agreement with Switzerland, it seems to be increasingly difficult to conclude an agreement before the end of the year on the whole of the " tax package" as the EU15 Heads of Government had pledged to do. During its last scheduled meeting of the year, the Ecofin Council on 3 December will assess the result of negotiations with third...

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