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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
In a subsequent meeting, the agenda is adopted and a new public hearing is opened on tax incentives for the European Green Deal, with an expert outlining how coordinated tax measures can support renewables, energy efficiency and sustainable transport without fragmenting the internal market.
Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
The rapporteur presents a draft report on EU corporate tax in the context of the OECD pillars and global competition, shadows set out their priorities on anti‑avoidance, minimum taxation and digital taxes, and the chair announces deadlines and upcoming votes before closing the public session.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
Rapporteur and shadows outline the proposed optional 28th tax regime focused on scale‑ups, debating simplification, scope, social and anti‑abuse safeguards, tax‑base design and risks of harmful competition, while acknowledging both areas of agreement and persistent political differences.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
Members raise concerns about the complexity of EU anti‑fraud instruments, their impact on compliant SMEs and the balance of competences, and the chair closes the VAT hearing by highlighting Italian e‑invoicing and other tools before transitioning to the next agenda item on the 28th tax regime.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
MEPs question the experts on linking ViDA rollout to phasing out reverse charge, SME compliance burdens, internal‑market fragmentation, behavioural measures and differentiated strategies for SME evasion versus organised crime, with replies stressing harmonisation, proportionate enforcement and cross‑border cooperation.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
Three experts detail the limits of the reverse charge as a systemic anti‑fraud tool, present sectoral experiences like Article 199a and Spanish fuel fraud, and explain how harmonised legal design and digital reporting (ViDA, SII) can address large‑scale VAT evasion.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
The chair opens the FISC meeting, adopts the agenda and confirms coordinators’ decisions before formally launching the public hearing on combating VAT fraud and setting out its scope, experts and speaking rules.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the final agenda point on a coherent tax framework for the EU financial sector, with the rapporteur highlighting VAT‑driven fragmentation and report goals, shadows setting out conflicting views on VAT reform, FTT and tax sovereignty, and the Chair closing the public session and announcing follow‑up in coordinators’ meeting.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
MEPs question experts on indexation, adequacy of minimum rates, cross‑border shopping, dual use, fiscal and inflation effects, illicit trade and enforcement, with experts defending higher, indexed excises, addressing behavioural responses, and calling for stronger EU‑wide measurement and controls.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
The new Chair introduces the tobacco excise agenda point and external experts, who explain the proposed Tobacco Tax Directive minima, modelling approach, and projected country‑level impacts on prices, consumption, revenues and health, advocating swift adoption with indexation.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
The committee moves from the study to the draft INI report on the 28th tax regime, with the rapporteur outlining objectives and structure, political groups expressing differing positions on ambition, scope and instruments, and the Chair setting deadlines and next procedural steps.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
External experts present their feasibility study on the 28th tax regime, detailing its non‑harmonising legal base, coordination tools, and substantive tax recommendations, followed by MEPs’ questions on scope, safeguards, tax competition, and links with BFIT and DEBRA.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the FISC meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, reports on coordinators’ decisions, and introduces the policy context and study mandate for an optional 28th tax regime to support EU competitiveness under unanimity constraints.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
Subcommittee Chair Tridico distils key takeaways on digital taxation, the global minimum tax, UN tax talks, ultra‑high‑net‑worth taxation, inequality and growth, and signals future symposium themes such as housing and the Savings and Investment Union, before Director‑General Thomas and the host situate the symposium in the EU policy pipeline and conclude with thanks, networking and closing logistics.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
The Commissioner reviews the past year’s tax actions (CBAM simplification, VAT in the digital age, Pillar Two, new own resources and green tax incentives) and outlines future priorities including modernising tobacco taxation, a direct‑tax simplification omnibus, CBAM extension with anti‑circumvention rules and support mechanisms, and new levies to promote a circular economy before closing on competitiveness, fairness and cooperation.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
Audience questions focus on fairness for ordinary savers, justification of tax subsidies for private pensions, intra‑EU withholding tax barriers beyond FASTER, ETS revenues and decarbonisation, and VAT carousel fraud, with panelists calling for targeted incentives, reduced bureaucracy and market frictions, and tax simplification aligned with transformative investment.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
Final panel opens on how to use taxation to steer household savings and institutional capital into productive investment, outlining Europe’s savings gap, intermediation blockages and possible EU‑level tax instruments and public investment tools.
Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
Audience polling, chair’s framing and expert interventions examine Europe’s savings–investment gap, roles of EIB and insurers, design of pension products and tax incentives, and the need for strategic industrial and credit policy rather than relying solely on retail investors.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
Keynotes and panel map the EU housing affordability crisis, financialisation and tax interactions, then assess how housing, wealth and inheritance taxation, EU fiscal rules and building regulations affect social and affordable housing supply and youth access, concluding with preferred tax reforms and procedural closing of the housing panel.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
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Session opens with Metsola’s message and an indicative vote on taxing high‑net‑worth individuals, followed by Nobel laureates Stiglitz and Aghion setting the analytical frame on inequality, climate and innovation, and a debate on global tax coordination, AI‑driven rents, and wealth taxation leading into national‑level Q&A and reflections on EU tax powers.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
The chair and moderator formally close the panel, thank participants, outline lunch arrangements and afternoon scheduling, then provide detailed instructions for the upcoming group photo of MPs and speakers, including seating and positioning guidance.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
The moderator frames the second panel around the BEPS Pillar Two implementation and the new US–G7 side‑by‑side safe harbour, with government, civil society and business representatives outlining the political rationale, legal structure and safeguards of the arrangement, civil society criticisms about double standards and opaque negotiations, business concerns about legal certainty and EU competitiveness versus US and Asian groups, and technical adjustments on the treatment of tax incentives and non‑refundable tax credits under Pillar Two.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
Panellists explain the structure of the side‑by‑side agreement, assess its implications for tax incentives, competitiveness and EU versus US and Asian firms, discuss the need for simplification and future stocktakes, explore transatlantic tax cooperation and EU response options, and answer audience questions on competitiveness, tax sovereignty, Pillar 1 and blending rules.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
The chair opens the session with a live vote on whether the Commission should assess Pillar 2’s competitiveness effects, then the moderator sets the geopolitical and technical context for Pillar 2 and the US–EU side‑by‑side agreement and introduces the panellists and guiding questions.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
The chair formally closes the first panel, gives detailed instructions for the coffee break and practical arrangements for participants, then reconvenes the session to introduce Panel 2 and organise a hemicycle vote mandating the Commission to assess the future competitiveness effects of Pillar Two, which passes with a large majority.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
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Panel 1 is launched with a vote on the priority of digital taxation, then experts and officials debate the nature of the digital economy, the stalled Pillar One convention, multilateral versus unilateral digital services taxes, EU strategic autonomy, scope and value‑creation concepts, compatibility with Pillar Two, and respond to parliamentarians’ questions on EU‑only action, UN talks, own resources and trade retaliation risks.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
The Commission recaps Day 1 and details EU work on tax gaps, VAT/excise gaps and Pillar implementation, the Cypriot Council Presidency sets out its vision for growth‑oriented and fair tax reform, and the OECD Secretary‑General presents current international tax cooperation, including BEPS, the global minimum tax and related capacity‑building.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
European Parliament leaders outline taxation as part of the social contract, link inequality and technological change to new tax challenges, and present the FISC subcommittee’s mandate and priorities on BEPS, Pillar 1 and Pillar 2, digital services taxation and innovation incentives.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting EU Tax Symposium 2026
Session opens with practical arrangements for participants in the hemicycle and tribunes, followed by a first anonymous test vote on participants’ identification with the “Brussels bubble” using the parliamentary voting system.
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Subcommittee on Tax Matters Ordinary meeting
Final Q&A block between MEPs and experts on scope, harmonisation, tax design and SME impacts of an EU 28th regime, followed by the Chair’s formal closure outlining next procedural steps and coordinators’ meeting arrangements.
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