Highlights - Meeting with multinational corporations (MNCs) - Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect

On 16.11.15 TAXE Committee held an extraordinary committee meeting with various multinational corporations- who have declined previous invitations- to hear their views on recent developments in the corporate taxation in the EU and beyond. These include, among others, the OECD proposal on the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan to the G20 and the ongoing Commission consultation on Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB). The Plenary vote is scheduled at Nov II session.

The exchange of views took place in two panels as follows:

· 1st panel: Google, Facebook, Amazon, HSBC Bank, Barclays

· 2nd panel: Philip Morris International, IKEA, Coca-Cola, The Walt Disney Company, McDonald's, Anheuser-Bush InBev