Costantino Lanza and Simone Brogi, two key members of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD), recently gave a short interview discussing the new VAT Central Electronic System of Payment Information (CESOP). They discussed that the purpose of CESOP, which is an EU centralised database to which tax administrations send relevant data, is to reduce the VAT gap by enabling tax authorities to better identify online sellers of goods and services.