European Court of Auditors' Special Report No 8/2007 concerning administrative cooperation in the field of VAT

The own-initiative report concerns Court of Auditors Special Report No 8/2007 on administrative cooperation in the field of VAT. The amendments call for better use of administrative cooperation to fight VAT evasion and fraud, timely exchange of information between Member States, greater use of simultaneous multilateral controls, and a common approach to quantifying VAT fraud; they note missing trader intra-Community fraud and Germany's refusal to comply with the Court's audit.