EC Commission requests information on tax ruling from 15 member States

On 8 June 2015, the European Commission ordered 15 member states to submit specific tax rulings to assess whether these respect EU state aid regulations.  The member States includes amongst other, Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. This above is based on assessment of information received by the Commission from 26 member as requested in December 2014 to submit general information on their tax rulings practices. Estonia and Poland have not complied with that request yet. The Commission ordered these two countries to submit the requested information within one month.