The European Commission plans to adopt a comprehensive package to strengthen the fight against tax evasion and aggressive tax planning in the EU. This package is the follow up to the Communication (IP/12/697) adopted by the Commission in June this year which sets out how tax compliance can be improved and fraud and evasion reduced.

According to the Commission, the package is an action plan to enhance administrative cooperation and to support the development of the existing good governance policy, the wider issues of addressing tax havens and of tackling aggressive tax planning.

Further details are available from the Europa website http://europa.eu/