Broken Deals and EU VAT
…Advocate-General Kokott delivered her opinion in Sonaecom (Case C-42/19) which also concerns a so-called ‘broken deal’. The litigant in this case, the Portuguese company Sonaecom, a mixed holding company, intended…
…Advocate-General Kokott delivered her opinion in Sonaecom (Case C-42/19) which also concerns a so-called ‘broken deal’. The litigant in this case, the Portuguese company Sonaecom, a mixed holding company, intended…
…OECD Public Comments, supra n 7, p. 7 and p. 95. [9] OECD Public Comments, supra n 7, p. 221. [10] OECD Public Comments, supra n 7, p. 83. [11]…
…Commissionaire type arrangements Art. 12.1 is like the new article 5.5 of the 2017 OECD MC, i.e. it qualifies commissionaires as PEs. Art. 12.3.a determines that article 12.1 shall replace…
…controversial commentary on the relationship between domestic anti-abuse measures and tax treaties. It asserted that a general rule, there is no conflict between such rules and tax treaties (2003 Commentary…
…its decision, whose findings instead pay consideration to “economic and commercial realities” as a “fundamental criterion for the application of the common system of VAT” (para. 31). Beside the one…
…Commission Services within Working Party IV of the European Commission, according to which safe harbours should be regarded as “unilateral” only where they depart from the international consensus embodied in…
…Tax News Alert, European Commission publishes proposal for recovery plan and adjusts 2020 Work Programme https://globaltaxnews.ey.com/news/2020-5790-european-commission-publishes-proposal-for-recovery-plan-and-adjusts-2020-work-programme 13. For a critical appraisal of these source rules under the traditional source concept,…
…resident company wholly owned by a Bermuda resident insurance company. The Mauritian company purchased and developed land in the UK. The three individuals each took out a life insurance policy…
…setting competencies to another entity / international organisation. International tax competition development factors Development of tax competition is affected by numerous factors. One of them is the gradual elimination of…
…The facts of the case are straightforward. The taxpayer, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, imported certain raw materials (impure wax) from its US-based parent company between financial…
…arrangement between Lux Bank and a financial institution based in the United Kingdom (“UK Bank”), a sister company of Lux Bank. Both entities were controlled subsidiaries of a listed company…
…It is, of course, commendable that the OECD addresses the discrepancy that existed between the substance requirements for preferential regimes on the one hand and low or no tax jurisdictions…
…Law Convention Art. 31 para. 1 does not define any hierarchy among the interpretation principles, the starting point of the interpretation is the common meaning of the provisions. Such common…
…the commentary on the OECD PPT, in which example company policy is taken into account when this is ‘conforming to the standard commercial organization and behaviour of the group’[8]. The…