BETTER FINANCE- Willingness Of EU Member States Crucial For Ending Double Taxation Of Investment Income Within The EU

Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, was invited to address the European Commission’s (EC) ‘Public Hearing on a simpler Withholding Tax procedure for Europe’. The EC just released a Code of Conduct on withholding tax[1] aimed at improving the refund and/or relief at source of current withholding taxes (WHT) charged by Member States within the European Union. At the hearing all participants, public and private, agreed that the success factor to transform this Code of Conduct into reality is the willingness of Member States to implement this non-binding document.