On 25 July 2006, the European Commission announced that it had sent Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain a formal request to end its discriminatory taxation of dividends paid to foreign companies (case reference numbers: 2004/4347 (Belgium), 2004/4350 (Italy), 2004/4352 (Luxembourg), 2004/4352 (Netherlands), 2004/4353 (Portugal) and 2004/4354 (Spain)).
Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain tax outbound dividen…