Yesterday, the Luxembourg Finance Ministry reported that EU
Member States have agreed on a compromise proposal for a Directive
introducing an optional 6-month deadline extension for reporting
under the mandatory disclosure regime applicable to tax
intermediaries (DAC6) and an optional 3-month deadline extension
for exchanging information under the Common Reporting Standards
(CRS).
The compromise proposal follows the initial proposal presented
by the European Commission on 8 May 2020 amending the EU Directive
on Administrative Cooperation to address the urgent need for
deferring certain time limits for the filing and exchange of
information in the field of taxation due to COVID-19 pandemic,
which we analysed in our
13 May 2020 ATOZ Alert.