A forum for leaders of EU countries’ tax administrations
Tax Administration EU Summit (TADEUS)
The Tax Administration EU Summit (TADEUS) is a forum for the heads and deputy heads of EU countries’ tax administrations. Together with the Commission, they meet regularly to improve administrative cooperation within the EU and to meet common challenges.
TADEUS 2023
TADEUS 2023 took place on 21-22 November in Malaga, Spain. Issues discussed include:
recent and future developments in administrative cooperation between EU countries to fight VAT and direct tax evasion and fraud
possible common methodologies for estimating various types of tax gaps
ways of increasing taxpayers’ trust and voluntary compliance at national, European and global level
Prior to 2018, a series of Commission reports on Member States’ administration of value added tax, income tax and the recovery of taxes had revealed deficiencies in the administrative cooperation within the EU.
In April 2018, EU economy and finance ministers agreed to foster cooperation between their tax administrations. In June 2018, the Heads of Tax Administration and the Commission decided - at a meeting in Thessaloniki - to create a forum called Tax Administration EU Summit (TADEUS).
Since then, heads and deputy heads of EU countries’ tax administrations meet at least twice a year to deepen their cooperation.
Achievements
TADEUS is proud to have already contributed to the following achievements:
A strategy and reviewed governance including setting-up an Advisory Board for the Eurofisc network to enhance the effectiveness of combatting cross-border VAT fraud
Guidelines on building trust and ensuring compliance (see recommendations)
In addition, the following projects have been launched by TADEUS and are in part already in the stage of implementation:
Monitoring the performance of administrative cooperation in the EU
Estimations of tax gaps (personal income tax/social security contributions, corporate income tax, missing-trader intra-community fraud and value added tax e-commerce)