12/23/2021 10:25:43 AM The “Danish cases” controversy: the Spanish Tax Authority makes its move By Miguel Cremades Schulz Following the path of tax audits stemming from the ECJ’s rulings of February 2019 (the “Danish cases” rulings), the Spanish Tax...
12/21/2021 4:42:47 PM Global minimum tax model rules By Zoe Andrews The model rules for Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) (a.k.a. Pillar Two of international tax reform) set a template for a...
12/14/2021 2:24:23 PM Valueclick case: Paris Administrative Court of Appeal finds French permanent establishment By Yves Rutschmann Victor Camatta In a decision dated 11 December 2020 (Valueclick case), previously covered in this blog, the French Administrative Supreme Court (Conseil...
12/3/2021 2:31:16 PM Who needs BAFTAs when we have MAP awards? By Zoe Andrews The OECD’s MAP awards for 2020 - not quite the BAFTAs, but (perhaps) still exciting for tax practitioners and authorities – were released...
12/2/2021 3:33:04 PM Public CbCR has arrived in the EU By Tanja Velling The EU's directive on public country-by-country reporting was published in the Official Journal on 1 December 2021 to take effect on the...
11/30/2021 5:52:11 PM TAMD is upon us By Tanja Velling As part of the UK’s Autumn Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that certain “tax administration and maintenance announcements” would...
11/11/2021 4:17:06 PM Turmoil in the Spanish real estate sector: Constitutional Court partially annuls a major local property transfer tax By Cristina Puerta The Spanish Constitutional Court has declared some provisions of the Law governing the Tax on the Increase in Value of Urban Land (TIVUL)...
11/2/2021 10:17:31 AM The time it takes to update tax treaties: the case of the founding OECD member countries By Mees Vergouwen The global tax treaty network has historically consisted of bilateral tax treaties. Updating a bilateral tax treaty network has been...
11/1/2021 10:34:16 AM Spain deposits ratification instrument for the MLI By Eduardo González Ángel Viñas On 28 September, Spain deposited with the OECD its instrument to ratify the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related...
10/27/2021 4:29:34 PM UK’s Autumn Budget 2021 By Tanja Velling On 27 October 2021, Chancellor Rishi Sunak presented the UK’s second Budget of 2021 under the tagline “A Stronger Economy for the British...
10/22/2021 2:48:42 PM Bridging the gap between DSTs and the new global tax system By Zoe Andrews A big driver for international tax reform (and certainly the motivation for the renewed interest in it by the US under the Biden...
10/20/2021 11:02:02 AM Net Zero Review: what can it tell us about the Budget? By Tanja Velling The Treasury's Net Zero Review Final Report, published alongside the Government's Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener and Heat and...
10/12/2021 4:10:21 PM Overview of 2022 Irish Budget – key tax measures By Paul Fahy Bryan Hughes The Irish Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, and the Irish Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Michael McGrath made their...
10/12/2021 3:04:44 PM Graphite or Diamonds? The complications of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism(s) By Slaughter and May Graphite and diamonds: take just one element - carbon - and assemble it differently, and you get a strikingly different result. The same...
10/8/2021 2:29:23 PM Ireland agrees to sign up to the OECD Inclusive Framework political agreement on the OECD two-pillar approach By Paul Fahy Bryan Hughes Ireland will sign up to the OECD Inclusive Framework political agreement on the two-pillar approach, following approval by the Irish...
9/30/2021 10:09:40 AM What’s the difference between nothing and nil? A tax deduction! By Mike Lane Net accounting has always thrown up some difficult questions for taxpayers and their advisers looking to claim a deduction for something...