11/11/2022 11:56:27 AM Transfer pricing and EU State aid – CJEU reaffirms national tax autonomy and annuls Commission’s decision in Fiat case By Zoe Andrews Where should the line be drawn between the prohibition on State aid and Member States’ fiscal autonomy? According to the Commission and...
6/8/2022 1:47:47 PM EU CFC State aid decision: the death of Cadbury Schweppes? By Mike Lane The General Court released its decision in the UK's and ITV's appeals against the Commission's decision that the UK's CFC finance company...
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...
12/13/2019 1:42:30 PM HMRC Statement on State Aid Recovery By Mike Lane Happy Friday the 13th! Taxpayers who claimed the benefit of the UK’s CFC finance company exemption before 1 January 2019 will have shaken...
10/15/2019 12:00:00 AM The General Court’s Starbucks and FIAT rulings: what’s new and what’s not By Wiebe Dijkstra The long-awaited judgments by the General Court of the EU – on whether unlawful stated aid purportedly granted by the Netherlands and...
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...
9/11/2019 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...
8/27/2019 12:00:00 AM DSTs and State aid: the Hungarian advertising tax State aid case By Tanja Velling Earlier this year, Zoe Andrews wrote that the General Court's decision in the Polish retail tax State aid case paves the way for digital...
7/19/2019 12:00:00 AM Commission’s decision to investigate Nike tax rulings explained By Wiebe Dijkstra The European Commission recently published its decision to initiate a State aid investigation into Dutch tax rulings relating to Nike....
6/6/2019 11:02:57 AM Decision time for the UK Government on the CFC State aid challenge By Slaughter and May The time limit for the UK to appeal the EU’s State aid decision in relation to the UK’s CFC regime is fast approaching, and we still do...
6/6/2019 9:45:23 AM Dutch interest free loan structures at risk after Huhtamäki? By Maarten van der Weijden The EC has decided to open an in-depth investigation into whether Luxembourg may have granted illegal state aid to the Huhatmäki group....
5/24/2019 12:00:00 AM Is a digital services tax State aid? By Slaughter and May A feature of all the DSTs described in Deeksha Rathi’s earlier post is that they apply only to digital businesses that generate global...
5/17/2019 12:00:00 AM Decisions to be made on UK CFC State aid challenge By Slaughter and May Now that they have had a chance to digest the decision in the EU State aid investigation into certain aspects of the UK CFC rules,...
4/26/2019 12:00:00 AM EU State aid decision on UK CFC rules By Slaughter and May The full decision in the EU State aid investigation into the UK CFC rules for non-trading finance profits (“NTFP”) has now been...