Summary While the U.S. has pulled out from the Global Tax Deal early 2025, threatening taking countermeasures, the latest batch of Inclusive Framework (IF) documents state several times that the IF countries accept the Pillar Two Model Rules and guidance and everything that is devised within the IF context as part of the ‘common approach’…
The Pillar 2 initiative (GloBE and QDMTT) has been seen as the end of using low effective corporate income tax rates (either by virtue of low nominal corporate income tax rates and/or through the use of tax incentives) as a means to attract foreign investors. Sacrifices made by the host country in terms of lower…
1. Background 1.1 An overview of current tax proposals The Omnibus Bill (Ley de Bases y Puntos de Partida para la Libertad de los Argentinos, the Bill) is a multi-purpose, comprehensive legislative proposal aimed at funneling and materializing several main objectives pursued by President Milei’s administration, concerning the restructuring of the public sector and the…
Introduction In Fall 2021, almost 140 members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) / Group of Twenty (G20) Inclusive Framework (IF) on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) — a framework for tackling tax planning strategies — agreed on a two-pillar solution, Pillar One and Pillar Two, to address the challenges arising…
The GloBE Model Rules have introduced the Qualified Domestic Minimum Top-Up Tax (QDMTT) into the ruleset of the international compromise on an effective minimum tax (“Pillar 2”). A QDMTT is defined as a domestic minimum tax that applies to local constituent entities of in-scope MNEs and produces outcomes that are consistent with the GloBE rules….
We are happy to inform you that the latest issue of the journal is now available and includes the following contributions: Tsilly Dagan, GLoBE: The Potential Costs of Cooperation This article argues that the fact that the 2021 global tax deal (focusing on Pillar 2) is cooperative is not in itself proof of the deal…
Some OECD officials have reportedly noted that countries should consider changing or eliminating potentially duplicative anti-avoidance measures, such as CFC legislation when they implement the 15% global minimum tax rules (or the so-called GloBE rules proposed by the OECD).[1] This blog will overview the German approach, which seems in line with this view, and the…
By Jefferson VanderWolk Partner, Squire Patton Boggs[1] The GloBE Model Rules were issued in final form in December 2021. No public consultation was undertaken regarding any draft Model Rules, as there was a need for speed in light of the tight timeline for implementation of Pillar Two’s 15% global minimum tax that had been agreed…
1. The IIR and the top-down approach It has become commonplace that the current OECD and Inclusive Framework (IF) proposals to address the tax challenges of the digital economy will represent a fundamental overhaul of the international tax system as we know it. As time passes, the international community has time to digest these possible…
