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Irish Finance Minister Comments on Taxation of the Digital Economy and Opposition to Majority Voting for EU Tax Policy Decisions

27 September 2017

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In a speech given to the Dublin Economics Workshop on 23 September 2017, Ireland's Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure & Reform, Paschal Donohoe, addressed a number of areas, including the taxation of the digital economy and a move from unanimity to qualified majority voting for the way tax policy decisions are taken in the EU. With respect to the digital economy, Minister Donohoe commented that it is best to take action having considered the OECD interim report that will be published in spring 2018 and that any solution must be built on a shared understanding of where value is...