The purpose of the evaluation is to provide a comprehensive and independent assessment of the European Union (EU)’s past and present cooperation in Ivory Coast, in order to draw key lessons and make recommendations for the future, including within the context of joint programming between the...

This Study updates three earlier papers in the Economic Affairs Series: Tax Competition in the European Union (ECON 105, October 1998); Tax Co-ordination in the European Union (ECON 125, January 2001); and Tax Co-ordination in the EU: the latest position (ECON 128, March 2002). The text does not...

This working document is an updated version of the study originally published in 1998 under the title 'Tax Competition in the European Union'. The General Introduction covers the recent history of tax policy within the European Union, and examines the current situation in the fields of Corporate...

This study highlights the importance of taxation for a very broad range of operations of companies in the Internal market. The evidence obtained from the responses provided by the 700 companies involved in the European Tax Survey strongly indicates that compliance costs of EU companies increase...