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...
7/2/2024 1:46:27 PM Pepsi wins royalty withholding tax and diverted profits tax appeal against the Australian Taxation Office By Andy Bubb On 26 June, Australia's Full Federal Court decided in favour of Pepsi on appeal, flipping the initial decision which had been in favour...
6/6/2024 2:09:54 PM Good news for secondary debt markets in interest withholding tax case before UK Upper Tribunal By Zoe Andrews HMRC v Burlington Loan Management DAC is an important decision for the smooth running of secondary debt markets. It is also a helpful...
4/18/2024 3:44:06 PM Hargreaves Property Holdings v HMRC: Ramsay reigns supreme By Kasim Mehmood In Hargreaves Property Holdings Limited v HMRC, the Court of Appeal dismissed the taxpayer’s appeal against the Upper Tribunal’s decision...
6/8/2023 3:00:01 PM Hargreaves Property Holdings v HMRC: Beneficial entitlement and “yearly” interest By Kasim Mehmood The Upper Tribunal’s decision is a helpful ‘back-to-basics’ on the nature and purpose of the provisions on withholding tax on interest...
10/7/2022 8:37:02 AM Italian Supreme Court sets aside discriminatory tax framework for non-EU pension funds based on free movement of capital By Giampaolo Genta Simone S. Schiavini A recent Italian Supreme Court decision could have far-reaching consequences for Italian tax provisions on cross-border dividend...
2/10/2022 2:44:07 PM Italian Supreme Court limits scope of beneficial ownership under Interest and Royalties Directive By Michele Dimonte Italian Supreme Court Decision No. 3380 of 3 February deals with the interpretation of the beneficial owner (BO) requirement under the...
9/22/2021 3:50:25 PM German tax laws pushed through before end of current parliamentary term By Verena Klosterkemper The German legislature has enacted a large number of new and amending provisions with remarkable speed, just before the current...
7/20/2021 7:58:53 AM German Federal Ministry issued long-awaited decrees on cum/cum-transactions and securities lending By Sebastian Adam As an aftermath to recent fiscal court decisions on cum/cum transactions, the German Federal Ministry of Finance ("BMF") has reconsidered...
4/6/2021 12:00:00 AM The Spanish Supreme Court confirms that non-Spanish sovereign wealth funds may be fully exempt from tax on Spanish source dividends By Blanca García On 24 February 2021, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down a significant ruling which prohibits differences in tax treatment between...
2/2/2021 12:00:00 AM Non-Spanish resident pension funds are entitled to the refund of withholding tax on dividends paid by Spanish resident companies By Guillermo Canalejo Blanca García A 22 December 2020 ruling from the Spanish Supreme Court (the Ruling) has confirmed that taxing non-Spanish resident pension funds on...
1/21/2021 10:47:18 AM Legal reform of German withholding tax regime to come By Sebastian Adam The German Government officially introduced a governmental draft for a reform of the German withholding tax (WHT) regime on 20 January...
1/7/2021 10:56:14 AM UK tax after IP completion day By Zoe Andrews Although the UK left the EU at 11pm on 31 January 2020, most people would not have noticed any change because the effect of the...
1/5/2021 9:20:47 AM Foreign investment funds are exempt from withholding tax on Italian source dividends and capital gains on equities By Michele Dimonte Andrea Manzitti Starting on 1 January 2021, dividends and capital gains earned by qualifying EU/EEA based investment funds (EU/EEA Funds) are exempt from...
11/10/2020 10:38:10 AM IP taxation: German nexus in unexpected circumstances By Sebastian Heinrichs The German Ministry of Finance (BMF) published the first guidance on one of the most hotly discussed German tax issues of the year on...
11/5/2020 3:40:03 PM The Spanish Supreme Court stands as the latest pacta sunt servanda watch By Ángel Viñas The Court declined to disapply the reduced royalties withholding tax rate under the Spain-Switzerland Tax Treaty on the basis that the...