Fiscalis programme: European Tax Cooperation Annual Progress Report 2025

          Council of the EU
          
            · May 28, 2026
          
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The European Commission has published the Commission Staff Working Document “Fiscalis programme Annual Progress Report 2025”.

Main announcement: The Commission presents the Fiscalis Annual Progress Report 2025, including the conclusion of the interim evaluation (2025), the 2025 committed expenses EUR 38,900,876.00 (MAWP financing decision), and the statement that 58% of the Programme’s 2025 resources were devoted to the European Electronic Systems (EES). The report also records that Armenia has formally requested association to the Programme and that negotiations are expected to be concluded in 2026. The Commission adopted a Proposal for a Regulation to establish the Single Market and Customs Programme (2028-2034) which would merge taxation cooperation with other funding streams (proposal COM(2025)590, 3.9.2025).
Context and key factual details: The document is an official annual progress report (SWD(2026)146 final) and provides quantitative outputs: overall MFF 2021-2027 allocation EUR 269,000,000, 2025 line-items (EES: EUR 22,491,644.10; Collaboration activities incl. expert teams: EUR 12,166,000.00; Other service contracts: EUR 4,243,231.90), operational milestones (e.g., DAC8 Central Register #1 operational 31/12/2025; SME on the web went live 2025), enforcement and recovery figures (e.g., €3.2 billion adjusted base for direct taxes; €278 million shifted profit; €79.9 million VAT; €5.5 million excise recovered), and programme activity metrics (e.g., 178 collaborative actions; 5,786 participants; 2,183 million system-to-system messages in 2025). The report is a new publication (annual progress report) rather than a recounting of a previous press release.

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