European Tax Adviser Federation (ETAF)

ETAF welcomes the Digital Omnibus initiative as an important step towards simplifying the EU's digital regulatory framework and supports its ambition to reduce compliance costs for businesses while preserving fundamental rights and data protection standards.

ETAF Statement Proposal for a Regulation on the 28th regime corporate legal framework The European Tax Adviser Federation (ETAF), representing the interests of more than 280,000 regulated tax advisers across Europe, would like to thank the European Commission for the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposal for a Regulation on the 28th regime corporate legal framework (COM (2026) 321), or the so-called “EU…

Opening of the attached position paper · the full paper is on the Commission’s record (source link above)

The European Tax Adviser Federation (ETAF) welcomes the reflection on a potential 28th regime as an opportunity to simplify rules and reduce fragmentation, sharing the underlying concerns about EU competitiveness.

ETAF welcomes the European Business Wallet (EUBW) initiative as an important step towards reducing administrative fragmentation and simplifying cross-border interactions for businesses and professionals across the EU. ETAF supports the proposals ambition to make doing business in the EU simpler and less costly, and notes positively the extension of the EUBW to self-employed individuals and sole traders.

ETAF welcomes the Tax Omnibus initiative as an important step towards simplifying the EU's direct tax framework and supports its ambition to reduce compliance costs for businesses while preserving the anti-avoidance objectives the Directives were designed to serve.

The European Tax Adviser Federation (ETAF) welcomes the European Commission’s intention to present, by the end of 2022, a proposal to establish a European withholding tax framework on dividend or interest payments. In principle, ETAF acknowledges that withholding taxes as such can reduce the risk of tax evasion and avoidance.

The European Tax Adviser Federation is a European umbrella organisation for tax professionals whose activities are regulated by law. It is set as an international not-for-profit organisation (AISBL) governed by Belgian law, based in Brussels and was launched in 2015. ETAF represents more than 215,000 regulated tax professionals from France, Germany, Belgium, Romania, Hungary and Austria.

ETAF welcomes the DAC recast as a continuation of the Commissions work following its evaluation of the DAC framework and as part of its wider objectives to simplify EU legislation and reduce reporting-related administrative burdens for businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The European Tax Adviser Federation (ETAF) is a European umbrella organisation for 280,000 tax professionals from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Hungary and Austria. The main role and mission of ETAF is to represent the regulated tax profession at European level in liaising closely with European policy makers in order to promote good legislation in tax and professional matters.

Feedback on the Roadmap of the European Commission “More efficient law-making in the field of taxation: Identification of areas for a move to qualified majority voting” The European Tax Adviser Federation, ETAF, is a European umbrella organisation for more than 250.000 tax professionals from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Romania and Hungary.

The European Tax Adviser Federation (ETAF) would like to thank the Commission for the opportunity to comment on its planned proposal for a Council Directive to tackle the role of enablers that facilitate tax evasion and aggressive tax planning. Please find attached our position paper. ETAF core messages are the following: 1. Before releasing new measures, existing regulation should be thoroughly evaluated first. 2.

The European Tax Adviser Federation, ETAF, is a European umbrella organisation for more than 280.000 tax professionals from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Hungary and Austria. ETAF thanks the Commission for the opportunity to comment on its Roadmap / Inception impact assessment on the “Review of the VAT rules for financial and insurance services”.

The European Tax Adviser Federation, ETAF, is a European umbrella organization for more than 280.000 tax professionals from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Romania, Hungary and Austria. ETAF thanks the Commission for the opportunity to comment on its Roadmap on a Communication and a Recommendation on “Taxpayers’ rights in the Single Market”.