EU's competition tsar weighed in behind corporate tax reform

Speaking last year, Europe’s top antitrust official said she favoured a common tax base across the euro zone

Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition: a common tax rate across the EU will make it easier to investigate suspected cases of preferential ax treatment. Picture: Bloomberg

The EU Commissioner behind today's Apple ruling spoke to Jack Horgan-Jones last year, signalling her determination to investigate cases where she believed some companies received special tax treatment:

Margrethe Vestager, who was appointed competition commissioner as part of Jean Claude Juncker’s new cabinet late last year, said that she is in favour of a common rate across the EU as it will make it easier to investigate whether companies have been given preferential ...