Lawmaker, Advisers Ask for Tax Flexibility in Unified EU Rules

EU countries need flexibility implementing a potential streamlined set of corporate tax rules if the bloc chooses to include such policy in that effort, according to a European Parliament member and a tax adviser group.

The EU should consider employee stock options, tax base calculations, and capital gain taxation in any framework, but countries should still be able to define their own tax rates, Slovakian EU Parliament Member Ľudovít Ódor said Tuesday at a hearing held by the parliament’s tax subcommittee.

The bloc launched an initiative last year, known as the 28th Regime, aimed at providing an optional, unified ...