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Polityka unii europejskiej przeciwdziałająca szkodliwej międzynarodowej optymalizacji podatkowania
The E. U. policy counteracting harmful international tax optimization

Author(s): Dominik Jan Gajewski
Subject(s): Economy, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Economic policy, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: harmonised tax policy; holding companies; tax optimization

Summary/Abstract: The activity of international holding companies has become crucial for the European economy. In particular, attention should to paid to the tax-related issues, which arise out of the cross-border activity of holding companies. Increasingly, holding companies employ aggressive tax optimisation in their strategies. While the tax policies of individual E. U. Member States have turned out to be of little effectiveness, simultaneously, the lack of a common and harmonised tax policy designed to counteract tax optimisation has become a serious problem for the European Union. Therefore, the European Commission strives to develop a fiscal concept which will - on the one hand - allow to effectively combat international tax optimisation adopted by holding companies and - on the other hand - be integral with the internal tax systems of individual Member States.

  • Issue Year: 7/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 63-80
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English, Polish