This week's edition of the CFE Tax Top 5 looks at the following: EU Adopts Minimum Tax Directive EU Progressed Landmark Agreement on Carbon Leakage Prevention OECD Publishes 2021 Peer Review Reports on the Exchange of Information on Tax Rulings OECD CFE Opinion Statement on Case C-538/20 (W...
In its final step in the legislative process, the EU Council has formally adopted a directive on ensuring a global minimum level of taxation for multinational enterprise groups and large-scale domestic groups in the Union (Pillar 2). Source: consilium.europa.eu...
At its meeting of 15 December 2022 the Council of the European Union recalled the European Union’s determination to have both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 implemented and called on the Commission to "monitor ongoing negotiations of the multilateral convention (MLC) on Pillar 1 and to...
The Czech Presidency of the EU has announced the unanimous agreement of the Member States to approve the Commission's proposal for a Directive ensuring a minimum effective tax rate for large multinational groups. The proposed Directive will be formally adopted by written procedure. source: ec.europa.eu...
On 8 December 2022 the European Commission proposed new amendments to the Directive on Administrative Cooperation to include exchange of information on crypto-assets (DAC8). The proposed revised Directive contains rules for reporting and exchange of information on crypto-assets for direct tax purposes applicable to service providers facilitating...
The CJEU has found, in case C-694/20 delivered on 8 December 2022, that Article 8ab(5) of Directive 2011/16, as amended, infringes the right to respect for communications between a lawyer and his or her client, guaranteed in Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, in so...
The CJEU has ruled in joined cases C-37/20 & C-601/20 WM and Sovim SA v Luxembourg Business Registers that the amendment to the AML Directive (Directive 2015/849 as amended by Directive 2018/843) pursuant to which Member States must ensure that Beneficial Ownership information is made accessible to...
This week's edition of the CFE Tax Top 5 looks at the following: EU Seeks to Define Aggressive Tax Planning ECJ Rules Public Access to Beneficial Ownership Registry Information Invalid Hungary Continues to Oppose Minimum Tax at EU Level OECD Publishes Updated Mutual Agreement Procedure...
The anticipated proposal for legislative developments addressing VAT in the Digital Age was published on 8 December 2022. The VIDA package puts forward measures for addressing: real-time reporting of intra-EU transactions the rules for passenger transport and accommodation platforms single VAT registration in the EU The proposed...
