MATTHAEUS: Vocational training of indirect taxation officials
A Commission proposal for a Council Decision (COM(92) 550 of 15.12.1992 on the adoption of a programme of Community action on the subject of the vocational training of indirect taxation officials (MATTHAEUS Tax) emphasises, inter alia, the benefit of MATTHAEUS training activities for the customs officials of the Member States, supplementing those organized at a national level, in developing a Community spirit of the officials working in the internal market. it is proposed that such experience must be spread to the indirect taxation area. The MATTHAEUS Tax programme is to last four years starting on 1 July 1993. It will consist of exchanges of indirect taxation officials between national administrations, training seminars for officers (particularly trainers, officials responsible for administrative cooperation, and those responsible for indirect taxation controls and the fight against fraud and tax evasion).