Vote in the European Parliament
Combating VAT fraud – the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation when it comes to VAT fraud and its impact on the EU budget
Overall Result
Adopted- 357 For
- 274 Against
- 31 Abstention
- 57 Did not vote
How we count
- Yes, No and Abstention come from the European Parliament's roll-call voting protocol.
- “Did not vote” is derived: MEPs with a mandate on the voting day for whom no vote was recorded. Abstentions do not count towards this.
- Subsequent vote corrections are shown but do not change the official result.
- Each vote (overall vote, amendment, partial vote) counts separately. Therefore totals may differ from pages that count differently.
Status and procedure
Outcome as recorded by the European Parliament.
- Vote held on
- Latest recorded step
- Plenary · (115 days ago)
- Next scheduled step
- No further step is scheduled in the source.
Procedure timeline
2025/2121(INI) · INI
Recorded procedure activities. These do not establish whether a law has entered into force.
- Recorded: Referral
- Recorded: Committee stage
- Latest recorded: Plenary
Recorded activities (8)
- Referral to committee
- Committee report tabled
- Committee amendments tabled
- Committee report adopted
- Tabling for plenary
- Tabling for plenary
- Plenary vote
- Plenary vote results
Scheduled activities (not confirmation of completion)
- Plenary vote
Procedure file (OEIL) · European Parliament data
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Sources
Data: EP Open Data API
What is this about?
- Stronger anti-fraud safeguards and resources in the EU’s next long-term budget
- Faster sharing of VAT and payment data to detect cross-border fraud
- Clearer responsibilities and binding rules to return recovered funds to the EU budget
Amendment history (1)
Wording as published by the EP, in English.
- Amendment 2Rejected
Paragraph 22
Tabled by Virginie Joron, Ondřej Knotek, Mieke Andriese +73 · Members
… OLAF and the EPPO for the purposes of cross-border VAT fraud detection; Added: although e-invoicing may be one of the tools used to combat fraud, it should remain voluntary, in particular for SMEs and micro-enterprises, in order to avoid imposing excessive operating costs on them; calls on the Commission to report to Parliament and the Council by …
Vote by political group
How the political groups voted
- 5For
- 64Against
- 4Abstention
- 5Did not vote
- 165For
- 0Against
- 4Abstention
- 16Did not vote
- 76For
- 0Against
- 0Abstention
- 8Did not vote
- 80For
- 0Against
- 0Abstention
- 4Did not vote
- 17For
- 4Against
- 3Abstention
- 4Did not vote
- 2For
- 46Against
- 0Abstention
- 5Did not vote
- 7For
- 123Against
- 0Abstention
- 5Did not vote
- 1For
- 36Against
- 4Abstention
- 4Did not vote
- 4For
- 1Against
- 16Abstention
- 6Did not vote
Members
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