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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8809

19 October 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 39 / 56
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation
New Member States better at respecting EU law than old Member States

Brussels, 18/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - Every single Member State of the newly enlarged EU has one or more tax rules which violate EU taxation law, according to a PircewaterhouseCoopers study. The EU country with the most tax illegalities is the UK, followed by France and Denmark. The least discriminatory tax systems are in Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia. The report notes that 'all of the ten accession countries which joined the EU on 1 May 2004 - with the exception of Latvia...

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