Jean Claude Juncker calls for unified tax rate

Commission president Jean Claude Juncker called for tax harmonisation when addressing allegations that he oversaw hundreds of sweetheart tax deals that let multinationals escape paying billions of euro in taxes.

Questioned by the European Parliament’s special tax committee, the former Luxembourg prime minister, who was also finance minister, insisted he had nothing to do with the revelations, known as LuxLeaks, that the country facilitated more than 330 companies to evade tax.

Instead, he said, it should be called EULeaks because of the common practice among member states and multinationals were extremely adept at making use of the different tax rules and administrative procedures.