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Where now for VAT & Financial Services?

Cathy Hargreaves and Martin Kelly, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, review the European Commission's progress with VAT in financial services

 
Cathy Hargreaves and Martin Kelly PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP review the European Commission's progress with VAT in financial services
 
The recent rejection by the European Commission of the taxpayers' most-favoured solution to the problems inherent in applying VAT to the financial services (FS) sector — the ability to form cross-border VAT groups — provides an opportune moment to appraise the progress of the Commission's review (the Review) of this difficult area. Action may now be required from the FS sector to maintain the momentum behind these vitally important reforms.
The genesis of the Review
 
The Commission has had the modernisation of...

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