Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
The Estonian Tax and Customs Board deals with ensuring receipt of state budget revenue from state taxes and customs duties, protection of the society and legal economic activities, implementation of the tax and customs arrangements based on the national tax and customs policy, also ensuring compliance with tax legislation, customs regulations and other legal acts, dealing with the issue of operating permits for gambling and for organisers of lotteries, supervision of legality of gambling operations and of the activities of organisers of lotteries as a gambling supervisory inspectorate on the basis of and pursuant to the extent prescribed by law, and providing service to persons by fulfilment of their tax liabilities and at performing customs formalities.
Due to economic fall in Estonia in 2008 and the resulting restrictions in the 2009 state budget, about 200 workers, mainly middle managers, will be dismissed, in order to cut organizational costs of the Tax and Customs Board. 150 vacancies will also be cut.
Eurofound (2008), Estonian Tax and Customs Board, Internal restructuring in Estonia, factsheet number 66999, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/66999.
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