9/27/2019 7:34:24 PM Automatic transfer of certain French tax cases to the Public Prosecutor By Franck Morhain Guillaume Pellegrin On 27 September, one of the key measures introduced by the recent Anti-Fraud Law (which was adopted by the French Parliament on 23...
9/26/2019 9:43:20 AM Who pays UK corporation tax? By Slaughter and May Earlier this week, HMRC published their annual corporation tax statistics, and they provide some interesting insights into who is paying...
9/25/2019 11:18:33 AM What can we learn from Starbucks and Fiat? By Slaughter and May The European Court ruled yesterday that the EU Commission had not been able to demonstrate that the advance pricing agreement between...
9/25/2019 12:00:00 AM Rule of tax law or rule of tax judges? By Andrea Manzitti «There is no liberty if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive» (C.L. de Montesquieu, The Spirit of...
9/16/2019 3:22:50 PM Where should the holding company be? By Slaughter and May In any cross-border merger transaction, an early question will often be where the holding company for the merged group should be located....
9/16/2019 12:00:00 AM Observations around Tax Certainty By Dominic Robertson Maarten van der Weijden Andrea Manzitti Markus Ernst +1 more... Show less Today is the first OECD Tax Certainty Day. We have asked some of our authors for their thoughts on the topic. One of my fellow panellists...
9/13/2019 4:16:19 PM A new Protocol will significantly amend the U.S.-Spain Tax Treaty By Guillermo Canalejo On 27 November 2019, the U.S.-Spanish Tax Treaty, which dates back to 1990, will be significantly amended by the entry into force of a...
9/13/2019 12:00:00 AM Google settles its French tax disputes for EUR 1 billion By Pierre-Henri Durand Guillaume Pellegrin On September 12, 2019, the US tech giant Google agreed to pay close to EUR 1 billion to settle both a criminal investigation for tax...
9/11/2019 10:58:52 AM ECJ Danish cases: can we have a clear user manual, please? By Maarten van der Weijden Frank Potgens It is more than six months since the ECJ’s decisions in the Danish beneficial ownership cases, but taxpayers and tax practitioners are...
9/11/2019 12:00:00 AM UK CFC rules and EU State aid: an update By Mike Lane A lot has happened since April when the European Commission published its full decision on the UK’s CFC rules explaining why it considers...
9/11/2019 12:00:00 AM What should your non-tax colleagues know about DAC 6? By Rafael García Llaneza DAC 6, the 2018 amendment to the Directive on Administrative Cooperation, is top of many tax adviser's worry list. Tax advisers involved...
9/11/2019 12:00:00 AM Update on German Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT) Reform By Markus Ernst What is it all about? The public perception, pushed by politicians and the press, is that the German real estate transfer tax (RETT)...
9/11/2019 12:00:00 AM Dawn raids and data dumps: handling the practical realities of tax disputes By Dominic Robertson Richard Jeens In the past, many tax disputes were run as technical debates, where the parties (largely) agreed the facts, the court had little...
9/8/2019 12:00:00 AM 73rd International Fiscal Association (IFA) Congress in London By Tanja Velling I post this blog on my way to the Women of IFA Network (WIN) Meet & Greet Reception, the first of many WIN activities taking place...