On July 11, 2017 the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA Committee) will welcome Finance Ministers Wolfgang Schäubele (DE), Paschal Donohoe (IE), Pier Carlo Padoan (IT) and Jeroen Dijsselbloem to discuss the follow-up of the Panama Papers in their respective countries and to hear their take on the problems as well on the initiatives that are being undertaken by the Commission in the field of taxation and anti-money.

During its meeting of July 10, 2017 the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA Committee) is going to discuss the draft report on the inquiry on money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion and a draft motion for a recommendation to the Council and the Commission pursuant to the third subparagraph of Rule 198(10) of the Rules of Procedure following the inquiry on Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion, which were both released on June 30, 2017.

On July 6, 2017 the OECD issued a press release announcing that Montserrat joined the Inclusive Framework on BEPS. Therewith the total number of jurisdictions that have joined the Inclusive Framework on BEPS comes to 102.

On July 5, 2017 the Japanese Ministry of Finance issued a press release announcing that on that same date the exchange of diplomatic notes between the Government of Japan and the Government of the Republic of Latvia for entry into force of the Convention between Japan and the Republic of Latvia for the Elimination of Double Taxation with respect to Taxes on Income and the Prevention of Tax Evasion and Avoidance, which was signed on January 18, 2017, (Hereafter: the DTA) took place in Tokyo.

On July 6, 2017 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judged in Case C-392/16, Dumitru Marcu versus Agenția Națională de Administrare Fiscală (ANAF) — Direcția Generală Regională a Finanțelor Publice București, (ECLI:EU:C:2017:519).

This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC of 17 May 1977 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes — Common system of value added tax: uniform basis of assessment (OJ 1977 L 145, p. 1), and Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (OJ 2006 L 347, p. 1), in particular the interpretation of their provisions concerning the conditions for application of the reverse charge mechanism.

 

The request has been made in a dispute between Mr Dumitru Marcu and the Agenția Națională de Administrare Fiscală (ANAF) — Direcția Generală Regională a Finanțelor Publice București (National Agency of Tax Administration (ANAF) — Regional Directorate General of Public Finance, Bucharest; ‘the tax agency’) concerning an application for annulment of the latter’s decision requiring the applicant to make a retroactive payment of VAT and refusing him the application of the reverse charge mechanism.

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