Finance ministers from the Nordic and Baltic Sea nations met in Tallinn on June 2 to discuss financial reforms.
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7 June 2000 y., Wednesday
Finance ministers from the Nordic and Baltic Sea nations met in Tallinn on June 2 to discuss financial reforms, with some Baltic officials saying countries in the region shouldn't be too hasty about harmonizing tax polices.
Germany has generally advocated faster-paced coordination of tax polices within the 15-member European Union—an organization to which most participants of the Tallinn meeting belong or are striving to join.
But Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania sounded a note of caution about any mandated tax changes. Estonia, in particular, has closely cherished its simplified flat tax system and has lower excise taxes than most EU nations. Estonian Finance Minister Siim Kallas said harmonization should not lead to more complicated tax structures or higher taxes.
But Germany's representative, State Secretary Cajo Koch-Weser, said EU tax reform seemed to be lagging and better coordination among countries was crucial.
The Finance Ministers from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany have held annual meetings each year since 1996 to discuss economic and financial reforms in the region. A final communique said talks also touched on how to clamp down on tax evasion and on how some countries were using tax policy to favor domestic industries.
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