About CFE

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The CFE was founded in the year 1959 and embraces 32 national organisations from 24 European States and within them over 180,000 tax advisers. We consider our functions to be to safeguard the professional interests of tax advisers and to assure the quality of tax services provided by tax advisers and to exchange information about national tax laws and to contribute to coordination respectively of tax law in Europe.

Role and Mission

 

The Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE) was founded in the year 1959 by the professional organisations of tax advisers of the six original Member States of the European Communities (with the exception of Luxembourg). The CFE considers its functions to be:

  • to safeguard the professional interests of tax advisers and to assure the quality of tax services provided by tax advisers.
  • to exchange information about national tax laws and to contribute to co-ordination respectively of tax law in Europe.
  • to maintain relations with the authorities at national and international levels, and most of all to bring to the authorities of the European Union the experience of practitioner of all areas of taxation and of professional law
  • to promote the co-ordination of national laws governing the profession, and in particular to achieve the protection of each national tax adviser’s title in Europe and to act for the recognition of tax adviser’s right to represent their clients on tax matters before financial and judicial authorities as well as before other national, international and supranational authorities
  • to inform the public about the services that tax advisers provide
  • to seek to provide the best possible conditions for tax advisers to carry out their profession
  • to facilitate co-operation in all areas which are of common interest to tax advisers in Europe, both inside and outside the borders of the European Union.

The CFE Statutes are available here: Statutes EN, Statutes FR, Statutes DE

The CFE Election Regulations are available here: Statutes EN, Statutes FR, Statutes DE

European professional principles of tax advisers

In order to ensure uniform standards for access to the tax profession and its practice, the CFE has adopted in Rome on 5 November 1980 the “European professional principles of tax advisers”. On 13 September 1991 in Zurich, the General Assembly of the CFE adopted the guidelines set out in the document “The development of the tax profession in Europe”, which came into force on 1 January 1992 and comprise the professional principles of 1980. They were revised with the decision of the Council on 29 April 2005 in Brussels.

The members of all professional organisations of the CFE are subject to these guidelines. The CFE recommends that the governments of the European countries require that all who are involved in the provision of tax advice be bound by these guidelines. This will help to protect taxpayers’ interests, improve relations with the tax authorities and set a higher standard of professional service. The member organisations of the CFE will ensure that only individuals who satisfy the following conditions are admitted to the tax profession as fully qualified professionals.

CFE Guidelines are available here: Guidelines EN, Guidelines FR, Guidelines DE