Tax Policies of European Union in Global Financial Crisis Process

In the United States of America, financial crisis which started in 2007 and deepened in 2008, has spread to other economies by financial markets, its effect has led to a global recession in many regions of the world including especially European Union. Like other countries, European Union countries affected by the crisis, applied a number of prevention policies primarily fiscal and monetary to stimulate their economies. Some of these are expansionary fiscal policy measures within scope of fiscal stimulus packages including government spending increases and various tax reductions. However, coordination in crisis period and seeking of common policy of European Union are complicated by difference between measures taken by countries. This case has been observed especially in tax policies.