European Tax

On 24 April 2025, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) ruled (once again) that transfers of personal data by the Belgian Federal...

As we previously reported, on 28 April 2025 the UK government announced a technical consultation on draft legislation (the Draft...

How foolish I was for thinking that occasions such as an Autumn Budget or Spring Statement would no longer be followed by a “tax...

Young drivers can get a specialised form of motor insurance if they have a device fitted to the car which records and transmits...

The UK’s Spring Statement delivered on 26 March 2025 did not include further tax increases and the Chancellor stuck to her commitment to...

The Court of Appeal published their decision in Gunfleet Sands on 17 March 2025, upholding the taxpayers’ appeal on the availability of...

What do tax lawyers talk about at lunch? In my case, it’s been the UK Supreme Court's majority decision (4:1) in Royal Bank of Canada. My...

All has ended well for the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) following the Supreme Court’s majority decision (4:1) that the UK does not have...

HMRC published supplementary draft guidance on the Multinational Top-up Tax (MTT) and Domestic Top-up Tax (DTT) covering, among other...

UK regulators had investigated failings by several energy providers. The investigations were settled with the imposition of nominal £1...

The announcement of a Spring Statement (rather than another Budget) on 26 March 2025 chimes with the promise of “predictability,...

In what appears to be a case confined to the application of the now expired capital allowances regime in respect of “enterprise zones”,...

In a special episode of Slaughter and May’s Tax News podcast, we asked Arvind Ravichandran, Tax Partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP,...

“Mind the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves” is something my grandmother often said to me in days when pocket money was...

Transfer pricing experts are used to grappling with some tricky valuation questions when it comes to intellectual property rights.  After...

Dispute prevention and resolution is a key theme of the OECD’s annual “Tax Certainty Day”. The 2024 edition took place in Athens on 15...