Treasury says making available documents detailing tax policies tailor-made for multinational firms would jeopardise ‘open and frank discussions’The UK has joined Luxembourg,the Netherlands and Belgium in blocking attempts by a committee of MEPs to gain access to secret European archives that detail some of most controversial tax policies tailor-made for multinationals over nearly two decades.
Over 17 years, a trove of technical documents, and minutes of meetings and discussion papers has been shared in Brussels by member states in a little-known EU group,sitting in private, which was set up to fight against harmful tax competition and to curb aggressive tax avoidance by multinationals.
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Source: theguardian.com