On 11 April LFMI initiated a petition against the efforts to create a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base which was signed and disseminated by a group of European economic research institutes and individuals both from the old and new member states.
The latest study from LFMI provides an in-depth analysis of tax harmonization, its goals and their feasibility as well as potential implications of planned harmonization of the corporate tax base across the EU.
On 14 February 2006, LFMI released a petition signed by 16 European free-market think tanks, calling EU institutions and national governments to consider the implications of the excise tax policy for the new member states and to start debates on changes thereof.
Structural funds and agricultural assistance have invariably been used to garner political support for EU membership, but they have never created necessary conditions for economic growth, argues LFMI‘s President Ugnius Trumpa. The commentary is posted at TCSDaily.com.
High excise taxation in the European Union risks exploding cigarette, fuel and alcohol smuggling into the bloc via the EU's 2,720 km border with Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine, warns Ugnius Trumpa, President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute. The article is posted by “EUobserver.com,” an independent website focusing on EU affairs.
