Five EU Countries Seek to Add Six Years to Minimum Tax Exemption

Five countries urged the EU Commission to extend an exemption from implementing the bloc’s minimum tax law by an additional six years amid negotiations to revise the levy’s framework.

Estonia, Malta, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia in a joint statement called for the six-year extension due to the “undue administrative burden” the countries would face if they had to implement the minimum tax by 2030, as currently stipulated, according to a joint statement seen by Bloomberg.

The statement made by the countries’ finance ministers at a meeting in Brussels on Friday comes as the EU and other ...