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Commissioner blasts #OpenLux tax-avoidance and laundering revelations; hints at reform designed to hit shell companies hard

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European Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni has condemned recent revelations of large-scale tax avoidance in Luxembourg warning that the country’s investment fund industry was a “black box” that helped people avoid tax and launder money.

He also teased the introduction of new measures designed to enforce public disclosure of tax affairs, and a strengthened tax-avoidance directive to further restrict shell companies.

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