European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud

The Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud is the member of the European Commission. The current commissioner is Algirdas Šemeta. The post was previously divided prior to 2010, with audit being under control of the Commissioner for Administrative Affairs.

The post is responsible for the EU's customs union and taxation policy. The European Union has had a customs union since the creation of the European Economic Community and that union extends to the non-EU members of the European Economic Area and to Turkey, Andorra and San Marino. Since 2010 it gained responsibility for audit (budgetary discharge, internal audit, counter fraud): in particular the Internal Audit Service and the European Anti-fraud Office.

List of commissioners

	Name	Country	Period	Commission
1	Frits Bolkestein	Netherlands	1999–2004	Prodi Commission (Taxation)
2	Neil Kinnock	United Kingdom	1999–2004	Prodi Commission (Audit)
3	László Kovács	Hungary	2004–2009	Barroso Commission I (Taxation)
4	Siim Kallas	Estonia	2004–2010	Barroso Commission I (Audit)
5	Algirdas Šemeta	Lithuania	2010 onwards	Barroso Commission II

See also

• Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union
• European Union withholding tax
• EU VAT
• Single European Act

External links

• Commissioner's website
• Commission Tax and Customs website