Environmentalists have welcomed the European Commission’s proposals to revise the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD), but green groups do not believe it goes far enough, fast enough.
If Northern Foods had merged with Greencore, it would have been the first merger involving a UK company structured under the EU Cross-Border Mergers Directive (ECBMD). Salman Shaheen talks to one of the architects of the deal to see what new tax challenges this threw up.
