European Tax Issues On The Agenda At Berlin Tax Conference

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

21 May 2004

The US-based think tax, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, has announced a panel of internationally renowned tax experts who will speak at the upcoming Tax Competition Roundtable in Berlin next month.

The conference, to be held on June 2nd, is set to discuss the virtues of tax competition and explore the adverse consequences of EU and OECD tax harmonization schemes, and is being co-sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and Germany’s Friedrich Naumann Foundation. It has been deliberately staged to precede the OECD Global Forum on International Tax Policy due to commence on June 3rd.

The key issues to be addressed at the Roundtable will mainly be on European themes including corporate tax harmonisation, the EU savings tax directive, Eastern European tax reform and voting rules for tax policy in the European Constitution, although the effect of OECD initiatives on low tax jurisdictions will also be on the conference agenda.

The panel of tax experts has been drawn from the United States, Germany, Belgium and Slovakia, and a representative from the OECD has also been invited to the event.

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