MIT to host re-founded Confédération Fiscale Européenne

The CFE, the umbrella organisation of the tax advising profession in Europe of which the Malta Institute of Taxation MIT is a member, has recently been founded afresh as an international non-profit  organisation under Belgian law. 

MIT has prepared a full range of professional and social activities for the occasion.

Originally founded in Paris in 1959, the CFE now includes national organisations from 28 European States and within these organisations there are more than 200,000 tax advisers. 

The CFE considers its functions to be the safeguarding of the professional interests of tax advisers, assuring the quality of tax services provided by tax advisers, exchanging information about national tax and professional laws, and seeking to contribute to the coordination of tax law in Europe.

The signing ceremony of the re-foundation documents took place in Brussels.

The Malta Institute of Taxation has been a CFE member for the last ten years.  It has participated in the re-foundation of CFE and MIT Honorary Secretary George Farrugia signed the constitution act on behalf of the Institute. 

This re-foundation had become necessary due to certain restrictions and dated requirements of the French law. No great changes in structures or purposes of the CFE were made as a consequence of the transfer.

Actually, the CFE had its registered address in France, but its administrative offices were at first in Bonn, later in Berlin and now, for several years, in Brussels.

The new registration becomes final with the issue of a Royal Decree, which is expected to be granted within the next few weeks.  This is roughly equivalent to the grant of a Charter under the more familiar British practice.

More info about the Malta Institute of Taxation can be obtained from the Institute’s office at 66, Mosta Road, Attard. ATD1430, on tel: 21314653, 21430070, or via email:[email protected]