Massive leaks of information on offshore activity like the Panama Papers illustrate the need for an enhanced global tax cooperation with an improved and deeper interjurisdictional information sharing…
George Orwell's parable, Animal Farm, offers insights on political and governmental institutions that bear revisiting from time to time. BEPS Action 6 with the broad title “Prevent treaty abuse” has…
This is the first part of a series about numbers in transfer pricing. In this edition, I look at sticking the TP five methods on a typical profit and loss account (hereafter “P&L”). I find it…
The dust has not settled yet and there is probably much more to come from this and future leaks. Investigations have started, international cooperation will be key and hopefully those that have not…
Treasury recently released its 2015 Transfer Pricing Advance Pricing Agreements Report to Congress, the seventeenth report since the initial 1999 report. Each year, the Treasury APA Report describes…
A critical appraisal of the EU Switch Over Rule and the Indian Equalization Levy
At present, it is unavoidable to recognize that the international tax scenario is in transition to a much more inter-…
The OECD BEPS project was kicked off by the observation that the interaction of domestic tax systems sometimes leads to an overlap, resulting in double taxation as well as gaps, which result in an…
That day in November 2012
It was 5 November 2012 when G20 Finance Ministers asked for a report on the root-causes of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, by their next meeting in February 2013.…
Volume 44 (2016) Issue 3 contains:
ARTICLES
José Manuel Calderón CARRERO, Alberto Quintas SEARA, 'The Concept of ‘Aggressive Tax Planning’ Launched by the OECD and the EU Commission in the BEPS Era:…
India’s 2016 Budget is proof that the Government is not only aware of major tax developments taking place globally, but is also sincere in bringing the country’s municipal tax system into line with…