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DIRECT TAX CROSS-BORDER ISSUES AFFECTING CITIZENS
Published by Gbaf News
Posted on February 25, 2014
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
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Published by Gbaf News
Posted on February 25, 2014
2 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
There is no concrete EU law stating how people moving from one EU country to another should be taxed.
To name a specific example, taxation on pensions differs between different EU member states causing problems for people who have worked in one EU country, but retired in another one, and even in some cases leading to pensioners being taxed twice on their income.
The application by member states of their taxing rules in parallel is not in itself contrary to EU law even if this leads to double taxation.
To explore how taxation issues can be addressed, the EU Commission has recently published a Communication report on cross-border tax obstacles for individuals.
Some suggestions addressed in this report by stakeholders about how cross-border tax problems could be tackled, include:
Some of the European Commission’s proposed actions include:
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