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Is taxation a poisoned chalice?

"Is the taxation a poisoned chalice?" That is what many told to Commissionaire Pierre Moscovici when he found out that President Juncker had given him the taxation portfolio. In the last eighteen months, the European Commission’s and OECD’s strong commitment...

EU Action Plan: Nice to meet you…..

The European Commission presented an Action Plan to fundamentally reform corporate taxation in the EU on 17 June 2015. The Action Plan sets out a series of initiatives to tackle tax avoidance, secure sustainable revenues and strengthen the Single Market...

MCAA – New Players in the Team

Strengthening the international community’s fight against offshore tax evasion: Australia, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia and New Zealand join multilateral agreement to automatically exchange information on 4 June 2015 Today marks another significant step in our collective pursuit to...

Luxembourg: New Year, New Rules….

Summary Article 29a of the General Tax Code on the Advance Tax Rulings and Advance Ruling Committee entered into force on 1 January 2015 in Luxembourg; Luxembourg endorsed the EU Commission’s plan to present a draft directive on mandatory automatic...

Starbucks v EU Commission: Alleged aid to Starbucks

Today’s blog is from Dick van Sprundel, Assistant Professor International and European Tax Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam plus International Tax Partner Mazars Netherlands Executive Summary: Today, the European Commission published its preliminary view concluding that that the APA...

51 Signatures, 1 Agreement

Today, the Finance Ministers from 51 countries and jurisdictions have signed a Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on the implementation of the Global Standard for the automatic exchange of financial account information. The signature of the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative...