i.        The problematic In June 2019, the Japanese and Argentine governments signed a Double Tax Convention for the Elimination of Double Taxation on Income Taxes and the Prevention of Tax Evasion and Avoidance (hereinafter Argentina-Japan DTA).[1] Although the goal of this international instrument, like all double tax treaties, is to generate an environment conducive to…

Main features of the new extraordinary prepayment on account of Income Tax  General Resolution 5248/22 (the Resolution), issued by the Argentine Tax Agency (AFIP), and gazetted on August 16, 2022, set forth an extraordinary (“one-time”) prepayment on account of Income Tax payable by corporate taxpayers contemplated in article 73 of the Income Tax law (ITL)[i]….

Notes on the starting of MLI internalization process Background The Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax treaty Related measures to prevent BEPS (the Multilateral BEPS Convention or MLI) [i] rounded up the implementation of the treaty-based final BEPS outcomes in one single document. MLI is aimed at providing a framework that could allow amending existing bilateral…

Apropos Molinos Rio de la Plata SA 1. Background: Memorandum DNI 799/10 In Memorandum 799/10, the Argentine Competent Authority (Argentine Tax Directorate, Dirección Nacional de Impuestos or DNI) dealt with a DTA structured after the Andean Model Treaty (AMT) and the interposition of a Chilean holding company (Platform Company) by an Argentine ultimate corporate shareholder….