Advocate General’s Opinion on DAC6’s Professional Privilege Waiver: Implications for Non-Lawyers

• Advocate General Nicholas Emiliou delivered his opinion on DAC6’s professional privilege waiver
• He suggested that the CJEU should answer questions from the Belgian Constitutional Court
• Emiliou stated that reporting aggressive cross-border tax arrangements does not breach Union law
• Member States can only exempt intermediaries from reporting if it breaches professional secrecy for lawyers
• The conclusions of Emiliou are not binding, and the Court will deliver its judgment in the future.

Source: etaf.tax

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