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  • VAT fraud costs the EU and the national budgets several billion euros every year. Thus, avoiding fraud has become the most important issue for the EU and the member states. Ronny Langer and Thomas Küffner of Küffner Maunz Langer Zugmaier look at the measures that have been introduced to address the problem and how they are affecting honest businesses.
  • Richard Allen, co-founder of Retailers Against VAT Avoidance Schemes (RAVAS) and former head of Delerium Records, looks at how Low Value Consignment Relief (LVCR) has undermined the single market.
  • Location saving is a hot issue in developing countries. Yin Chao, who speacialises in transfer pricing at Siemens in China, and Yin Shuping, who is an associate professor at Guangdong Polytechnique Normal University, explain China’s perspective on the transfer pricing aspects of location saving on contract R&D.

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