EU VAT Bill Again Meets Resistance, Pushing Talks to November

The European Union’s finance ministers will discuss a new, amended value-added tax bill in November, after negotiations on the current bill failed to get consensus, according to people familiar with the matter.

Hungary, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, had initially hoped for the bill to be approved at the finance ministers summit in October.

The bill, known as VAT in the Digital Age, or ViDA, introduces e-invoicing, single VAT registration and would apply the tax to parts of the EU platform economy.

• All EU countries agree on the bill except Estonia, which thinks ...