EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council Reaches Agreement on VAT-Related Proposals and Adopts Measures to Strengthen Administrative Cooperation

On 2 October 2018, the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council reached political agreement on three VAT-related proposals, which will be adopted once certain procedural steps are completed. These include:

• The e-publication regulation, which will allow member states to apply non-standard VAT rates to electronic publications and potentially align VAT rules between physical and electronic forms for publications. This file is part of the EU's wider efforts to modernise value added tax for the…