9/10/2025 3:33:41 PM Spain’s National Court recognises non-EU taxpayers’ right to be taxed on a net basis, by deducting expenses against their Spanish source income By Guillermo Canalejo Isabel Desviat In a landmark decision, Spain’s National Court (Audiencia Nacional) has applied CJEU case law on the free movement of capital to conclude...
6/10/2025 10:27:55 AM Re-domiciliations and cross-border mergers: key tax questions By Victor Camatta Tanja Velling Re-domiciliations and cross-border mergers can be great options for a restructuring and, within the EU, the rules governing both types of...
1/27/2025 12:59:21 PM Europe's Decision on Bizkaia's Withholding Tax: Key Implications for International Investments By Iratxe Celaya Cristina Puerta On 19 December 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a significant decision in the case of Credit Suisse...
2/21/2024 5:14:20 PM Fine-tuning in international tax planning – the art of allocating head office’s management expenses to its foreign permanent establishments By Daniel Alió Euvrard The Spanish Supreme Court recently ruled on the criteria to be used to allocate (part of) the general management and administrative...
12/4/2023 3:24:02 PM Sunny days ahead for green energy investors: new Spanish tax ruling brightens prospects for RtB greenfield projects in the renewable energy sector By Daniel Alió Euvrard Luis Suárez de Centi A recent binding tax ruling (V2200-23) issued by the Spanish tax authorities introduces a favourable change to the criteria to be met to...
11/7/2023 4:12:36 PM Are you an AIF? Are you comparable to a Spanish AIF? If yes, you could be entitled to a limited 1% tax on your Spanish source income By Violeta Pina Carlos Arrieta Martínez Valentín Magraner Bou The 1% income tax treatment, instead of the standard 19% tax, is available to non-Spanish tax resident alternative investment funds...
8/2/2023 10:59:50 AM Criminalisation of tax issues in Europe By Stefano Brunello Dormal Yves Rutschmann Jan Adami Teresa Morales +1 more... Show less In recent years, there has been a steep increase in criminal proceedings for tax matters in some European countries, such as France,...
7/31/2023 9:41:48 AM Purpose tests in anti-abuse or anti-avoidance provisions: perspectives across Europe By Stefano Brunello Dormal Victor Camatta Mees Vergouwen Jan Adami Tanja Velling Marta Pontes Teresa Morales +4 more... Show less In order to carry out a transaction, taxpayers are generally free to choose between different structures and tax regimes, and to choose...
7/31/2023 9:38:46 AM Purpose tests in anti-abuse or anti-avoidance provisions in Portugal By Marta Pontes Gonçalo Martins Agostinho There are multiple purpose test provisions pursuant to which the Portuguese tax authorities can recharacterise or disregard a transaction...
7/31/2023 9:38:13 AM Purpose tests in anti-abuse or anti-avoidance provisions in Spain By Víctor Viana Teresa Morales Marta Hernández-Mora Olivié The Spanish tax authorities can challenge transactions under purposes tests in the two different general anti-abuse rules (GAARs) as well...
7/26/2023 8:51:51 AM Beneficial ownership: perspectives across Europe By Stefano Brunello Dormal Pierre-Henri Durand Mees Vergouwen Jan Adami Tanja Velling Marta Pontes Teresa Morales +4 more... Show less Across a number of European jurisdictions, relief from withholding tax may be denied where the recipient of a dividend, interest or...
7/26/2023 8:43:42 AM Beneficial ownership from a Portuguese perspective By Marta Pontes Gonçalo Martins Agostinho The Portuguese tax authority has started to deny withholding tax refunds (requested by non-resident recipients who had not yet completed...
7/26/2023 8:43:13 AM Beneficial ownership from a Spanish perspective By Víctor Viana Teresa Morales Marta Hernández-Mora Olivié Since the Danish conduit cases, the Spanish tax authorities have used the beneficial ownership concept to deny the application of...
7/11/2023 11:02:20 AM Good news for non-residents with assets in Spain? A promising Wealth Tax precedent. By Alex Pié Santiago Tórtola A recent decision may pave the way for non-residents with assets in Spain to benefit from significant Spanish Wealth Tax reductions. The...
6/28/2023 1:38:01 PM Spanish Supreme Court follows CJEU's case law: dividend distributions within the EU shall be tax exempt unless the tax authorities prove abuse By David López Carlos Arrieta Martínez In a recent ruling issued on 8 June 2023, the Spanish Supreme Court followed the Court of Justice of the European Union’s decisions in...
4/28/2023 10:11:55 AM Bizkaia, a first mover in Spain’s film industry, provides a tax incentive of up to 70% for foreign and domestic audio-visual productions By Cristina Puerta As mentioned in a previous post, the three historical territories of the Basque Country in Spain (as well as Navarre) have their own tax...