5/19/2021 10:26:18 AM From CCCTB to BEFIT: the European Commission's plan to future-proof taxation By Tanja Velling The Commission's Communication on Business Taxation for the 21st century sets out reams of important tax policy announcements, whilst...
4/10/2021 8:32:16 AM Amsterdam Appeal Court: what are the limits to using post-dated OECD commentaries in interpreting a double tax treaty? By Maarten van der Weijden The Amsterdam Appeal Court decision which addresses this question deals with the double tax treaty between France and the Netherlands of...
4/9/2021 10:49:08 AM French Administrative Supreme Court takes post-dated OECD commentaries into consideration in interpreting French-Irish double tax treaty By Yves Rutschmann Victor Camatta In its decision in the Valueclick Case on 11 December 2020, the French Administrative Supreme Court ruled on the existence of a permanent...
1/29/2021 5:12:45 PM Revised OECD tax treaty guidance as “temporary” COVID-19 travel restrictions continue to impact business operations By Kasim Mehmood The OECD has issued updated guidance on tax treaties and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic which adopts broadly similar views on...
1/20/2021 3:19:30 PM Pillar Two: simplification is key By Tanja Velling Simplification was a key theme of the public consultation on the OECD’s two-pillared international tax reform proposal. Zoe Andrews has...
1/4/2021 4:52:14 PM OECD's guidance on transfer pricing implications of COVID-19: nothing “new” in the “new normal” By Dominic Robertson The IMF's Annual Report for 2020 described the COVID-19 pandemic as a "crisis like no other", which has "created the worst recession...
1/4/2021 12:00:00 AM DAC6: over (in the UK) before it’s begun? By Tanja Velling Dominic Robertson The UK has effectively repealed DAC6 for the majority of cases. With effect from 11 pm (UK time) on 31 December 2020 – the day before...
10/16/2020 12:35:32 PM International tax reform – winners and losers By Zoe Andrews The OECD's Impact Assessment presents its international tax reform proposal as the least worse-case scenario rather than a significant...
10/16/2020 12:00:00 AM Pillar Two: Is the cure worse than the disease? By Andrea Manzitti Francesco Saverio Scandone During OECD Tax Talks #17, Pascal Saint-Amans presented the Pillar One and Two Blueprints as a glass half-empty because no consensus has...
10/14/2020 12:00:00 AM OECD Pillar 1: Loss treatment in the context of Amount A By Andrea Manzitti Francesco Saverio Scandone Amount A under Pillar One of the OECD’s two-pillared proposal for international tax reform would constitute a new taxing right for market...
7/24/2020 12:00:00 AM Tax residence post-MLI By Tanja Velling Under the MLI (meaning the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent BEPS developed by the OECD)...
7/16/2020 10:53:11 AM A simpler and more modern tax environment sounds good – but what about tax competition? By Zoe Andrews The Apple case is seen as raising the (very) hot topic of how a multinational group like Apple should be taxed in a modern, digital...
6/19/2020 12:43:26 PM Digital Services Taxes: How “rough and ready” could become the new normal By Slaughter and May The UK’s Digital Services Tax (“DST”), which is a 2% levy on certain revenues derived from search engines, social media services and...
5/15/2020 12:05:03 PM Dutch tax treatment of intra-group debt guarantees at odds with OECD guidance By Maarten van der Weijden The paragraph of the OECD transfer pricing guidance on financial transactions dealing with parent guarantees is, in my view, incompatible...
2/7/2020 12:00:00 AM OECD reviews Country-by-Country Reporting, suggesting possible extensions By Tanja Velling The OECD has released the consultation document for its review of Country-by-Country Reporting which forms part of the standardised...
11/12/2019 12:00:00 AM GloBE: learning the lessons of the past By Mike Lane The OECD published its Pillar Two paper on the Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) Proposal on Friday (Zoe Andrews' earlier post provides an...