Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

EU signs international tax agreements with European countries | CRS

In October 2025 the EU signed several international tax agreements, with Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino and with Switzerland. According to the press releases the amending protocols ensure that the information exchanges continue to take place in accordance with … Lees verder

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“Innocent people are being frozen out of basic banking services – and it all traces back to reforms rushed through after 9/11” | AML, CFT

Oliver Bullough in his article for the Guardian explains the history of privatisation of governmental tasks to banks [*]. He gives the example of what people from Somalia experience with banks: The tiniest things set off the bank’s suspicions. If … Lees verder

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Doctorow about US practices: “forms that you sign on penalty of perjury, attesting that you have made no mistakes or omissions”

In his Luxury Kafka article Cory Doctorow explains how the US government works with regard to immigration: When you deal with US immigration authorities, everything is elevated to the highest possible stakes. Every step of every process – work visa, … Lees verder

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AlgorithmWatch’s guidelines to use generative AI responsibly

AlgorithmWatch announced guidelines in the article AlgorithmWatch’s guidelines to use generative AI responsibly: Whether you use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, Copilot or Perplexity – generative AI poses massive problems: many results are inaccurate and politically problematic, the systems’ energy and … Lees verder

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Proposal for the EU Tax Data Hub and other recommendations of the European Parliament

The EU is working on changes in the European tax system, ‘to boost competitiveness of the EU’. Of course, the main reason for the changes is that the revenues of the Member States and the EU need to be increased … Lees verder

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Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers

That’s what the website ‘Just the Browser’ promises: Just the Browser aims to remove the following functionality from popular web browsers: Most AI features: Features that use generative AI models, either on-device or in the cloud, like Copilot in Microsoft … Lees verder

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Artificial intelligence in tax collection

The future of tax collection is digital. That is shown by the 2025 Tax Administration Report of the OECD that is announced on this page. Governments work more and more digital and data-driven and collect more financial information from third … Lees verder

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ECNL’s Guide to Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments (FRIA)

The European Center For Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) published the article A Guide to Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments (FRIA) on the guide created by ECNL and the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

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CFE statement on the European Commission Consultation Concerning “28th Regime” for Start-ups and Scale-ups

CFE Tax Advisers Europe submitted a statement on the proposed “28th Regime” and note, among other things: CFE strongly supports the objective of creating a simplified EU-wide entity structure to facilitate the expansion of start-ups and scale-ups. Past experience with … Lees verder

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Automatic Exchange of Information on Immovable Property is coming

The international exchange of information between governments will be extended to immovable property. More information in the article of Tax Advisers Europe (CFE) of December 2025: OECD Establish Framework for Automatic Exchange of Information on Immovable Property Last week, twenty-six … Lees verder

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