CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 20 SEPTEMBER 2021
BRUSSELS | 20 SEPTEMBER 2021 State of the Union: EU Prioritises Global Tax Deal & Fair Taxation In the 2021 State of the Union Address, EU Commission President von der Leyen highlighted the most important current key tax priorities for the European Union. In particular, Von der Leyen noted that fair taxation was key in [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 6 SEPTEMBER 2021
BRUSSELS | 6 SEPTEMBER 2021 OECD’s International Tax Agreement to Eliminate Double Taxation In a recent interview, Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the Center for Tax Policy and Administration said that the technical agreement being finalised by the Members of the Inclusive Framework in the Two-Pillar agreement on taxation of the digital economy and minimal global corporate [...]
CFE’s Global Tax Top 10 – September 2021
BRUSSELS | SEPTEMBER 2021 Tax Administrations Accelerate Digital Transformation The OECD’s Forum on Tax Administration issued the Tax Administration 2021 report in September, which compares data on particular aspects of tax administration and tax systems across 59 economies, compiled in the 2020 International Survey on Revenue Administration. The report examines the data to highlight key trends, innovations [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 30 AUGUST 2021
BRUSSELS | 30 AUGUST 2021 Macron Discusses Ireland’s Support for OECD’s International Tax Agreement French President Emmanuel Macron visited Ireland last week to discuss taxation and Brexit, hoping to persuade his Irish counterparts to support the OECD proposals to reform the international tax rules. Macron has publicly denied any pressure on Ireland, but the Irish government acknowledged that Irish [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 9 AUGUST 2021
BRUSSELS | 9 AUGUST 2021 OECD’s Forum on Harmful Tax Practices Publishes Peer Reviews The OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS has approved peer review results of the Forum on Harmful Tax Practices, in which it reviewed preferential tax regimes and made conclusions concerning 25 different regimes. The results confirm that a harmful offshore banking regime in Australia had been [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 2 AUGUST 2021
BRUSSELS | 2 AUGUST 2021 EU Study: Minimum Tax Substance Carve-Out Will Increase Tax Competition & Decrease Taxable Revenue The EU Tax Observatory, recently established research body funded by the European Commission, published a note suggesting that a substance carve-out will increase tax competition and would allow companies to escape taxation if they have sufficient operations (assets and employees) [...]
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CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 26 JULY 2021
BRUSSELS | 26 JULY 2021 EU Commission Publishes Anti-Money Laundering Legislative Package The European Commission has now published its Anti-Money Laundering legislative package, which will upgrade the existing EU anti-money laundering legislative (AML) framework. The package consists of four proposals, namely: A Regulation establishing a new EU AML/CFT Authority; A Regulation on AML/CFT, containing directly-applicable rules, including [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 19 JULY 2021
BRUSSELS | 19 JULY 2021 EU: Landmark Climate Policy Package On 14 July, the European Commission proposed an ambitious climate policy package, encompassing multiple policy instruments to deliver on the European Green Deal Commitment to make Europe a carbon neutral continent by 2050, and to cut carbon emissions 55% by 2030. The package includes a number of instruments, [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 12 JULY 2021
BRUSSELS | 12 JULY 2021 G20 Reach Global Tax Deal in Venice G20 Finance Minsters reached a historic agreement to establish a minimum global corporate tax rate of at least 15%, building on momentum from the recent G7 deal and the global agreement on international tax reform reached based on a two-pillar solution which allows multinational companies to pay more [...]