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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11784

10 May 2017
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: Madeira's special status under fire
Brussels, 09/05/2017 (Agence Europe)

At a hearing of the European Parliament’s committee investigating the Panama Papers scandal on Tuesday 9 May, MEPs were looking forward to speaking with representatives of Madeira, Gibraltar, Jersey and Guernsey.

It was the representative of Madeira, which several MEPs accuse of being a tax haven, who was the first to face the hazards of the hearing.  The island’s secretary of state for finance said it was certainly a heavenly haven but not a tax haven.

Madeira is an outermost region...

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