欧盟高度重视区域内数字经济的发展情况,出台了一系列与数字经济发展相关的战略规划文件。为了更好地建立单一数字市场,欧盟制定了一系列促进数字经济发展的宏观政策,涉及财政、货币等多个方面。此外,与数字经济相关的税收政策也得到了欧盟极大的重视。欧盟的数字经济间接税政策使得增值税电子商务一揽子机制得以在欧盟内建立,并且对属于前欧盟成员国的英国有重要影响。直接税方面,欧盟及其部分成员国均对开征数字服务税进行了尝试,然而结果并不理想。欧盟转而寄希望于通过参与和支持OECD在BEPS领域的相关工作,依靠多边机制解决BEPS相关问题,因此十分支持并积极落实OECD提出的“双支柱”方案。这一立场与已经退出欧盟的英国不谋而合。税收征管数字化方面,欧盟近年来在税收征管的简化和便利化、加强成员国间合作与信息交换、电子发票相关立法等方面均取得了一定成果。
The European Union(EU)attaches great importance to the development of the digital economy in the region of EU and has issued a series of strategic planning documents related to the development of the digital economy. In order to better establish its single digital market,the EU has formulated a series of macro policies to promote the development of the digital economy,covering various aspects such as financial and monetary. In addition,tax policies related to the digital economy have received great attention from the EU. The EU’s indirect tax policy for the digital economy has enabled a Value-Added Tax(VAT)e-commerce package to be established within the EU and has significant impact for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland(UK),a former EU Member State. In terms of direct taxation,both the EU and some of its Member States have experimented with the introduction of a digital services tax,however the results have not been good. The EU has turned to rely on multilateral mechanisms to address Base Erosion and Profit Shifting(BEPS)-related problems through participation in and support of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD)’s work in the field of BEPS,and therefore strongly supports and actively implements the “two-pillar” solution proposed by OECD. This position coincides with the UK,which has left the EU. With regard to the digitalization of tax collection and administration,the European Union has achieved certain results in recent years in the simplification and facilitation of tax collection and administration,the strengthening of cooperation and information exchange among Member States,and legislation related to electronic invoicing.