Ministers of Finance of the German speaking European countries are due to discuss (international) tax matters during their next annual meeting
On August 21, 2015 the Government of Liechtenstein issued a press release announcing that the Austrian Minister of Finance (Hans Jörg Schelling) has invited his German (Wolfang Schäuble), Swiss (Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf), Luxembourg (Pierre Gramegna) and Liechtenstein (Adrian Hasler) counterparts for the annual meeting of Ministers of Finance of the German speaking European countries. According to the press release this year’s annual meeting is due to take place in Salzburg on August 25, 2015.
According to the press release issued by the Liechtenstein Ministry of Finance the subjects on the agenda include a.o.: the automatic exchange of information with respect to tax matters, the developments in the area of international taxation of business profits and the list of non-cooperative countries (tax good governance) that published by the European Commission on June 17, 2015, which included a.o. Liechtenstein. According to the press release furthermore European fiscal policy matters will be discussed.
Click here to be forwarded to the press release as issued by the Liechtenstein Government, which unfortunately is only available in German.
