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PwC's Tax Bites Podcast

How can taxpayer’s fundamental rights bring balance to the ever increasing powers of the tax authorities in the EU?

PwC's Tax Bites Podcast

PwC Belgium

Workforce, Tax, Legal, Business, Bites

5.01 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Tax transparency is the new normal. An ever increasing amount of EU legislation is passed under the banner of the fight against tax fraud. The scope of the legal instruments that allow for mutual assistance between tax authorities are constantly extended. This trend poses a huge challenge for businesses that are coping with tax officials who are using every means possible to collect taxes, while often overlooking Fundamental rights of taxpayers. This podcast illustrates how...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. My name is Peter Drey and I welcome you to this next episode of the

0:10.4

PWC Taxbyte podcast series. In this podcast we will talk about the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

0:18.0

Recently I followed a webinar of two colleagues of mine,

0:22.8

Veronique de Brabantler and Nicola Dutre. And yeah, it seems like such a relevant topic for

0:29.4

everyone that I thought to record a podcast on this. Let me introduce who I have with me

0:36.2

in my virtual recording studio.

0:37.9

First of all, Veronique de Brabantir, as I said, she is a lawyer of the law firm,

0:42.5

PWC legal, and she's focusing on resolving tax disputes and litigations.

0:47.7

Then we have Nicola Dutre.

0:49.9

He is with PWC and a vet expert with a focus on procedural aspects.

0:56.2

Nicola and Vironiq were the speakers of the webinar, but I thought it would be useful to also

1:00.4

invite Bram Markey here because Bram is or Mia tax controversy leader.

1:06.2

So the topic of the webinar was the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Tax Matters.

1:10.8

And during the webinar was the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Tax Matters.

1:18.3

And during the webinar, the balance between tax authorities and the fundamental rights was explained.

1:18.9

I found it very interesting.

1:20.7

But Bram, I would like to hear from you with the speakers here in our podcast.

1:25.2

Did you enjoy the webinar?

1:27.7

I absolutely enjoyed it, Peter, because the topic is at the very heart of the challenges

1:33.2

that corporate and individual taxpayers are facing nowadays with all of the transparency

1:39.6

initiatives, exchange of information, international cooperation, anti-abuse claims in taxation,

1:47.0

avalanche of new legislation, nationally, EU, globally. It all leads to different interpretations

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