Tax Policy

Policies about taxation, typically at a macro economic scale.

BEPS, OECD, Permanent Establishments, Tax Planning, Tax Policy, Tax Treaties, Transfer Pricing, United Nations

(Temple Tax Chambers; King’s College London)/ /1 Comment

The attribution of profits to a permanent establishment is already a complex issue with at least three separate regimes in the tax treaty context- the OECD Authorised Approach under the 2010 OECD version of Article 7 of the OECD Model, the AOA subject to limitations required by the pre-2010 version and that permitted by Article…

Intangibles, Tax Policy, Tax Treaties, Uncategorized, Withholding Taxes

(Godoy & Hoyos Abogados)/ /1 Comment

Probably without noticing it, Colombia did not take into account that signing the recent DTT with France would allow some treaty-covered taxpayers to claim Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) protection. Some of Colombia’s DTTs, as the ones signed with Spain, Chile, Switzerland, Portugal and Mexico, include Most-Favoured-Nation clauses with respect to royalties. In this sense, it is important…

Brexit, Customs and Excise, EU/EEA, Tax Policy, Tax Treaties, VAT, Withholding Taxes

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When UK voters went to the polls on 23 June 2016 and voted by a slim majority to leave the European Union, few of them had in mind the impact on taxation.  Future generations are unlikely to view it kindly. Looked at from the present the dominating features are uncertainty and disruption of settled tax…

BEPS, M&A and Reorganizations, MAPs and APAs, OECD, Permanent Establishments, Tax Avoidance, Tax Planning, Tax Policy, Tax Treaties, Uncategorized, Withholding Taxes

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1. The Tendency We live in a time where the media, politicians, NGOs and activists increasingly are preoccupied with international tax matters. A simultaneous preoccupation is observed among the OECD, G20, EU countries and most other developed countries alike. This has led to continuously increasing regulatory requirements and strengthened legislation towards companies. The tendency is…

BEPS, OECD, Tax Policy

(Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) of the University of Amsterdam; Chiomenti)/ /Leave a comment

I recently participated in a seminar on tax & innovation in Naples, my home town where I stay often to arrange personal issues, which has a sparkling start-up community, in an increasingly conducive ecosystem. I was trying to remain engaging for non-tax folks and not sleep them out with tax technical issues, so I structured my short…

OECD, Tax Avoidance, Tax Fraud, Tax Policy

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Massive leaks of information on offshore activity like the Panama Papers illustrate the need for an enhanced global tax cooperation with an improved and deeper interjurisdictional information sharing scheme. In fact, efforts towards reaching a global tax cooperation on obtaining and sharing interjurisdictional information is a longstanding endeavor of the international community, whose origins may…

BEPS, Customs and Excise, EU/EEA, OECD, Tax Avoidance, Tax Planning, Tax Policy, Tax Treaties, Withholding Taxes

(Bomchil)/ /1 Comment

A critical appraisal of the EU Switch Over Rule and the Indian Equalization Levy At present, it is unavoidable to recognize that the international tax scenario is in transition to a much more inter-nation equitable system, where the national tax base will be better protected against erosion and profit-shifting corporate manipulations than it was in…

BEPS, Intangibles, OECD, Permanent Establishments, Tax Avoidance, Tax Policy, Tax Treaties, United Nations, Withholding Taxes

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Model tax treaties do matter. The OECD and UN Models constitute precedent books with standard clauses that contracting states can follow or adapt to suit their particular circumstances. The US Model treaty, in contrast, is a statement of intent. The preamble to the revised 2016 US Model Income Tax Convention released by the US Treasury…

BEPS, CCCTB, EU/EEA, Tax Avoidance, Tax Policy

(Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) of the University of Amsterdam; Loyens & Loeff)/ /Leave a comment

(about the switch-over clause in the ATA Directive) In order to combat BEPS, the European Commission is proposing to start taxing low taxed non-EU income. That sounds reasonable, but the consequence will be that in the EU, there will be no more profits to tax. This is a proposal that is not necessary to prevent…

Tax Policy

(Rio de Janeiro State University, Sergio André Rocha Advocacia & Consultoria Tributária)/ /1 Comment

In 2015, people around the globe celebrated the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta Libertatum, considered to be the first constitutional-like document that established restrictions on a sovereign’s basically unlimited power. The principle of “no taxation without representation” has its origins in this British document of 1215. The symbolic relevance of the Magna Carta has…

BEPS, CCCTB, EU/EEA, OECD, Tax Avoidance, Tax Planning, Tax Policy

(CORIT advisory)/ /2 Comments

Written by Associate Professor, PhD, Michael Tell, Department of Law, Copenhagen Business School and Technical Advisor, CORIT Advisory. Darwin’s theory of evolution states that complex creatures evolve from more simplistic ancestors, while natural selection ensures that only the fittest survive and the others become evolutionary “dead-ends”. The aim of this blog contribution is to address…

BEPS, OECD, Tax Avoidance, Tax Planning, Tax Policy, Transfer Pricing

(Temple Tax Chambers; King’s College London)/ /1 Comment

The longstanding view on application of the arm’s length principle is that it is generally based on a comparison of the conditions in a controlled transaction with the conditions in transactions between independent enterprises. A transaction, for this purpose, almost always involves a contract. This is because a contract, whether made in writing, orally or…

BEPS, OECD, Tax Planning, Tax Policy, Tax Treaties

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An open door for emerging economies or the beginning of the end in international tax co-ordination In an article published earlier this year,[1. Teijeiro, Opening the Pandora’s Box in the International Tax Field (First Part), Tax Planning International Review, volume 42, #4 (April 2015), p. 4 ss.] I alerted on the instability of the current world tax…