Confédération Fiscale Européenne

The Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE) was founded in the year 1959 in Paris. The CFE is an umbrella organisation that embraces 33 national organisations from 25 European States and within them over 180,000 tax advisers.

The purpose of the CFE is to bring together all tax advisers' organisations of all European States and to safeguard the professional interests of tax advisers and to assure the quality of tax services provided to the public.

The CFE aims to promote the further development of the national laws governing the profession, to exchange information about national tax and professional laws and the development of the tax and professional law in Europe, to maintain relations with the authorities at national and international levels, and most of all to bring to the authorities of the European Union the experience of practitioners of all areas of taxation and of professional law.

The CFE also aims to inform the public about the services that tax advisers provide, to facilitate co-operation in all areas which are of common interest to tax advisers of the European countries, both inside and outside the European Union, and to seek to provide the best possible conditions for the tax advisers to carry out their profession.

Structure

The General Assembly is the governing body of the CFE and the Council is the highest-ranking advisory body. The Executive Board is in charge of the day-to-day running of the CFE.

The CFE Fiscal Committee is in charge of the CFE's extensive technical work on taxation. The Fiscal Committee has two sub-groups: Direct taxation and Indirect taxation. For the discussion of topical tax matters the Fiscal Committee regularly establishes Task Forces to which outside experts may also be appointed.

The CFE Professional Affairs Committee deals with professional and regulatory matters.

Cooperation

The CFE cooperates with:

• ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council of the UN). In 2007 the CFE obtained the consultative status within the ECOSOC. The CFE is now able to attend meetings of the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters.
• AOTCA (Asia-Oceania Tax Consultants Associations). AOTCA is the International Organisation for the tax professionals in that region. The main purpose is to exchange information, knowledge and experiences on taxation and to exert for expansion and development of tax profession.

References

• International Accounting Bulletin, Arvid Hickman, issue 438, p4, 31 October 2008

External links

• CFE's website