Volume 25 (2016) issue 3 contains:
EDITORIAL:
Bruno PEETERS, 'Tax Shifts in EU-Member States: The Growing Impact of (Shifting) Recommendations by the European Commission on National Tax Policy…
On May 10, 2016, the Indian Finance Ministry announced that a new protocol has been finalized to amend certain provisions of the Indo-Mauritius double taxation avoidance agreement. According to a…
Back in April this year, my contribution on the Panama Papers scandal started by saying that: “Massive leaks of information on offshore activity like the Panama Papers illustrate the need for…
Introduction
While tax legislation is subject to continuous changes, tax treaties are an interesting tool whereby Contracting States offer investors some degree of legal certainty, especially where…
Harmonisation of the efforts to discourage tax avoidance in the EU
Recently, besides the objective of maintaining a balanced allocation1 (a reflection of the principle of territoriality), the…
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…
On June 24 the British people voted in favour of the UK leaving the EU. The vote itself does not automatically imply the withdrawal from the EU: indeed, such withdrawal shall take place pursuant to…
“I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.” - Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party
The now
Have you ever wondered…
Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) has become one of the top priorities on the Agenda of almost all supranational bodies (OECD, EU, UN) and many jurisdictions. Due to the overall lack of…
On June 27, 2016 the EU Commission published the long awaited Starbucks State Aid decision (see here). The EU Commission’s decision challenges the outcome of the Advanced Pricing Agreement (APA)…