Within hours of his appointment, Donald Trump issued a memorandum in which he rejects the Global Tax Deal conceived by the OECD/G20. The new US president stresses that it has “no force or effect within the United States”  without an act by the Congress adopting the relevant provisions of the agreement. The memo is bluntly…

Introduction  Throughout my professional life, I have worked with international tax law. Consequently, I have witnessed various trends and tendencies for more than a quarter of a century. The period during which I’ve been involved in tax law in my view represents a golden age for the discipline. Significant developments have occurred. During my student…

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…

Prof.M.F. (Maarten) de Wilde[1] Summary Yesterday, on 14 March 2022, the OECD published the Commentary on the Pillar 2 Model Rules, the global minimum rate for large multinationals. When reading the first pages, the author was overwhelmed by the urge to write this opinion and, ‘equally, however’, to make a connection with an animal farm….