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The Brussels Global Conference on Professional Affairs / 26 November 2008
October 10, 2008
The CFE is organising the conference “The Tax Adviser profession: ownership and cooperation - How much regulation is needed?” on Wednesday 26 November 2008. The intention of the conference is to reflect on how regulation on the tax adviser profession are pervading the profession particularly as regards of ownership and cooperation. The Conference contains two sessions focusing upon “Risks of external ownership and regulatory responses” and “The pervasiveness of multidisciplinary regulations”“.
Program Professional Affairs Conference
The conference will be held at Hotel Sofitel Brussels Europe, Place Jourdan1, between 14.00 hrs - 18.00 hrs.
For more detailed information please contact brusselsoffice@cfe-eutax.org
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Video recordings of the CFE Forum 2008
The video recordings of the CFE Forum 2008, which took place in Brussels on 3 April 2008, are accessible for the public.
The morning session “The Taxpayer‘s Charter -a Model for Europe?” examined the recent thinking and debated the role that Taxpayer’s Charters can play in improving the tax systems in all countries to the benefit of revenue authorities, taxpayers and tax advisers.
The afternoon session “VAT formalities for electronic invoicing - a challenge for Europe‘s businesses” highlighted the overall technical and legal issues as today business suffer from legal uncertainty, non-compliance with requirements and a lack of confidence in the implementation of e-Business solutions.
The recordings are free of charge but in order to gain access it is necessary to register with DATEV.
Please follow this link .
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CFE Opinion Statement on VAT formalities - Review of the existing legislation regarding invoicing
October 3, 2008
This is an Opinion Statement prepared by the Fiscal Committee of the Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE) on VAT formalities - Review of the existing legislation regarding invoicing. The Opinion Statement is a reply on the European Commission’s online consultation to ascertain the view of businesses on the existing legislation on VAT invoicing.
CFE Opinion Statement on VAT formalities - Review of the existing legislation regarding invoicing
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CFE Meetings in Madrid
October 2, 2008
From Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 of September 2008 the CFE meetings took place in Madrid. The technical meetings of the General Assembly, the Fiscal Committee, the Professional Affairs Committee and the Advisory Board of the Past Presidents were held at the Hotel Ritz Madrid. The Hotel provided a beautiful setting in the centre of Madrid, just next to the Prado Museum and Plaza Mayor.
Plaza MayorGeneral Assembly
During the General Assembly 4 new Associations were accepted into the CFE. The Hellenic Federation of Independent Professional Tax Consultants (P.O.F.E.E) and the Institute of Indirect Taxation (UK) as full members, and The Chamber of Tax Advisers of Russia andThe Romanian Chamber of Fiscal Consultants as observers. For the first time in the CFE history an election was held to chose the next President and the Vice-Presidents, and not a rotating system. Stephen Coleclough was elected President and Herbert Becherer, Christine Cloquet and Jiri Nekovar were elected Vice-Presidents.
Welcome Reception
The two hosting Member Organisations, the Asocoación Española de Asesores Fiscales (AEDAF) and the Registro de Economistas de Asesores Fiscales (REAF) organized a very impressive opening reception on Thursday evening in the Casino de Madrid, where the CFE President Maria Lourdes Perez Luque welcomed all the CFE delegates to Madrid.
The Casino de Madrid began in 1836 and the name ‘Casino’, used for the first time in Spain, was chosen instead of society or club “to distance the centre from any political connotation”. The present building was created in 1910 and was declared a monument of Cultural Interest in 1993.
Didrik de Thibault and Laetitia Bois from the CFE Brussels Office at the Casino de MadridGala Dinner at La Bolsa
The CFE Gala Dinner was held at La Bolsa de Madrid Friday evening. Contrary to the latest negative reports from the international stock markets, the CFE Gala Dinner at the bourse of Madrid was a very positive and cheerful event!
The wonderful dinner was served in the Great Hall of La bolsa de Madrid, which is an extraordinary building officially founded in 1831. The dinner was accompanied with beautiful music and inspiriting speeches by the present CFE President Maria Lourdes Perez-Luque and the future CFE President Stephen Coleclough.
The Chairwoman of the CFE ECJ Cases Task Force, Stella Ravantós-Calvo and Maria Lourdes Perez-Luque, President of the CFE
The future CFE President, Stephen Coleclough with his wife Sarah
Ian Young, Chairman Direct Taxation CFE Fiscal Committee, and Christine Cloquet, CFE Vice-President
Gottfried Schellmann, future Chairman of the CFE Fiscal Committee, together with his wife Chris Schellmann
Terry Davies, from our new Member Organisation the Institute of Indirect Taxation (IIT), and Henk Koller, Chairman of the CFE Professional Affairs Committee
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Interview with Stella Raventós-Calvo
An interview with Stella Raventós-Calvo, Chair of the CFE Task Force on ECJ Cases, was published in the Tax Notes International (September 22 2008, p. 1022).
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CIOT - European Branch Tax Conference
October 1, 2008
The Chartered Institute Of Taxation (CIOT) will hold a European branch tax conference in Berlin, Friday 24 October 2008.
The topics to be considered and discussed are:
- Location and migration of holding companies
- New interest deduction rules
- The VAT package - planning for 1 January 2010
- Loss relief carry forwards and effective corporate tax rates
For more information please see the invitation
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CFE Fiscal Committee - National Reports
Recent national updates from CFE’s Member Organisations
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CFE Professional Affairs Committee - National Reports
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Press Release
September 29, 2008
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Europan Tax Report 06/2008