10/22/2020 10:01:31 AM Postponed French DST installments will be due in December 2020 as OECD missed end of 2020 deadline By Franck Morhain Victor Camatta Enacted in mid-2019, the French Digital Services Tax (DST) is supposed to be temporary and to be repealed as soon as new appropriate...
3/20/2020 6:08:25 PM UK presses ahead with digital services tax By Zoe Andrews At a time when the priority for the UK government (after dealing with COVID-19, obviously) should be securing a good trade deal with the...
2/14/2020 12:00:00 AM International tax reform could increase global tax revenues by up to 4% By Zoe Andrews While discussions continue on the design and technical detail of international tax reform under Pillars One and Two, the OECD Secretariat...
1/24/2020 3:41:41 PM Postponement of the 2020 French DST instalments following discussions in Davos By Victor Camatta Franck Morhain The French Digital Services Tax (“French DST”) which was enacted in mid-2019 with effect from 1 January 2019 has been expected to...
11/26/2019 10:20:56 AM Is now a good time for a UK digital services tax? By Zoe Andrews The message was clear at last week's OECD public consultation on the reform of the international tax rules that there is a need to fix...
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...
11/8/2019 3:23:58 PM Consultation on the Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) Proposal under Pillar Two By Zoe Andrews Another day, another proposal to substantially change the international tax architecture. This time it is the GloBE Proposal under...
10/9/2019 12:00:00 AM New taxing right to be an overlay to the arm’s length principle By Zoe Andrews The OECD Secretariat proposal for a unified approach published today for consultation until 12 November focuses on Pillar One (nexus and...
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...
7/25/2019 7:48:41 AM The French 3% Digital Services Tax comes into effect By Franck Morhain The Bill introducing the French Digital Services Tax (the “French DST”) presented by the French Government on 6 March 2019 and...
7/12/2019 12:00:00 AM UK publishes draft legislation and guidance for digital services tax By Zoe Andrews On the same day as the US begins an investigation into whether the 3% digital services tax (DST) adopted by the French is damaging to US...
6/28/2019 8:56:31 AM French Digital Services Tax: final adjustments prior to enactment of the Bill? By Franck Morhain On 26 June 2019, the Commission Mixte Paritaire, a parliamentary committee composed of an equal number of representatives from the French...
6/17/2019 12:00:00 AM Co-opting digital companies into tax law enforcement By Tanja Velling Today, The Times reported that some 38,000 online sellers registered for VAT in the UK in 2017-18, compared to 29,000 in the previous...
6/12/2019 12:00:00 AM Taxing the digital economy: impact assessments will help identify winners and losers By Zoe Andrews The G20 has endorsed the OECD's work programme consisting of the two-pillar approach which was the subject of Tanja Velling's recent...
5/31/2019 12:00:00 AM OECD's update on the digital economy By Tanja Velling Earlier today, the OECD's G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS published a Programme of Work to Develop a Consensus Solution to the Tax...
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...