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Nuno de Oliveira Garcia on DAC7 regarding taxation on transactions made through digital platforms | Observador
Nuno de Oliveira Garcia, coordinating partner of the tax area of the Lisbon office, answers a few questions for Observador regarding the changes that DAC7 brings regarding taxation on transactions made through digital platforms. “This directive is part of a set of initiatives aimed at combating fraud and tax evasion.”
It also states that “The cooperation between the different European tax entities that will try to understand who is evading taxation on transactions made online, is an “unstoppable movement”, he says, recalling that the DAC7 is already the seventh amendment to the administrative cooperation directive.
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It also states that “The cooperation between the different European tax entities that will try to understand who is evading taxation on transactions made online, is an “unstoppable movement”, he says, recalling that the DAC7 is already the seventh amendment to the administrative cooperation directive.
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