EU details crackdown on shell companies

FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium August 21, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo

The plan needs final approval from the European Parliament and all 27 EU member states before coming into force with a target date of the start of 2024. If all those boxes are ticked, the firm would be considered a shell company subject to new tax reporting obligations and unable to benefit from tax breaks.

Those characteristics include indications that a company gets more than three-quarters of its global revenue elsewhere than from its business activity, or if more than three-quarters of its assets are in expensive property or high-value dividends.

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