European Court of Auditors: EU Exchange of Tax Data System Yet Insufficient to Prevent Tax Evasion
/On 26 January 2021, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) published its Special Report 03/2021 on the exchange of tax information in the EU. The underlying tool is the Directive on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation (Directive 2011/16/EU), which has been amended several times in the recent years to widen its scope. The ECA carried out audits in five Member States between 2014 and 2019: Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Cyprus. For this purpose, the ECA examined, firstly, how the Commission is monitoring the implementation and performance of the tax information exchange system. Secondly, the ECA looked at how Member States are using the information exchanged and how they are measuring the effectiveness of the system.
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