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EU agrees zero tax rate is not enough to define tax haven: Padoan

Published 11/08/2016, 09:10 AM
Updated 11/08/2016, 09:20 AM
© Reuters. Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan speaks at a news conference

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers agreed that countries applying a zero tax rate cannot automatically be considered tax havens, Italy's finance minister said on Tuesday, a move that may reduce the scope of a EU blacklist of offending jurisdictions.

© Reuters. Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan speaks at a news conference

"We have find an agreement on the fact that if a jurisdiction applies zero tax rates, this can be considered as an indicator of possible unfair practices, but it would not be enough to define a jurisdiction as non-cooperative," Pier Carlo Padoan told a news conference after a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels which discussed criteria to set up a common blacklist of tax havens.

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