EUROPE/GERMANY - The European Commission asked Germany to amend its legislation on taxation of dividends paid to German pension funds, arguing the higher tax paid by foreign investors is discriminatory against non-German pension funds.
Under current German legislation, dividends by German companies to German Pensionskassen - a type of German pension fund - are either subject to a reduced withholding tax rate, or the Pensionskasse...
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