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Luxembourg is currently under investigation by the European Commission for using tax rulings as a form of illegal state aid (Photo: Jimmy Reu)

Corporate tax dodging still rampant in EU

A number of member states are failing to tackle corporate tax avoidance despite media revelations and EU and national-level moves to close loopholes.

“It’s clear that in the EU it is business as usual for multinational corporations who want to dodge the rules to lower their tax bills”, said Tove Ryding from the Brussels-based European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) in a statement on Tuesday (3 November).

The tax scandal erupted last November when the International Conso...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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Luxembourg is currently under investigation by the European Commission for using tax rulings as a form of illegal state aid (Photo: Jimmy Reu)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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