Ireland rejects Brussels plan to kill national vetoes on tax
EU Commission wants qualified majority voting on all tax issues by 2025
Irleand issued a swift rejection on Tuesday of the European Commission’s plan to remove national vetoes on matters relating to tax. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire
The Republic issued a swift rejection on Tuesday of the European Commission’s plan to remove national vetoes on matters relating to tax, even as Brussels moved to delay the implementation of the most controversial elements of the proposal to 2025.
“Taxation is a sovereign member state competence and decisions at [European] Council on tax matters require unanimity,” a spokeswoman for Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe said in response to the Commission’s plan. “Ireland does not support any change being made on how tax issues are agreed at EU level.”