The Irish government today filed suit to annul the EU Commission’s decision in the Apple case, which concluded that Ireland granted Apple about €13 billion (USD 14.5 billion) in illegal state aid by . . .
Ahead of tomorrow’s ECOFIN meeting seeking agreement the EU anti-tax avoidance directive, Czech Republic finance Minister Andrej Babiš is warning that, to win his country’s support for the directive, EU ministers . . .
The EU Commission today published the non-confidential version of its decision concluding that an advance pricing agreement (APA) granted to a Fiat subsidiary by Luxembourg is illegal . . .
Davide Anghileri of the University of Lausanne discusses an October 27 EU Commission working paper on debt bias tax systems of the EU member states which concludes that reform can be revenue neutral and maintain EU investment . . .
An EU Commission paper released October 27 uses economic modelling to conclude that recent EU proposals for a common corporate tax base (CCTB) and a common consolidated corporate tax base with formula apportionment (CCCTB) would result a fairer and more efficient tax system, writes Davide Anghileri, of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland . . .
The EU Commission on June 3 released a working paper identifying several categories of Member State transfer pricing rulings that raise potential State aid concerns because they sanction profit allocations. . .
As expected, the EU Commission will need to defend in court its contention that advance pricing agreements (APAs) granted to a Starbucks subsidiary by the Netherlands and to a Fiat subsidiary by Luxembourg . . .
Mary Cosgrove, a tax lecturer at the J. E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway, provides an update of the EU Commission’s State aid challenge to tax rulings granted by Ireland to Apple . . .
The paper, Financial Transaction Taxes in the European Union, was written by Thomas Hemmelgarn, Gaëtan Nicodème, Bogdan Tasnadi, and Pol Vermote. See: EU Commission.
Aisling Donohue, a tax partner at mgpartners, Dublin, discusses Apple’s grounds for appealing the EU Commission’s State aid decision against Ireland, published today in summary form, noting that Apple’s arguments diverge somewhat from Ireland’s arguments. . .
The European Commission today published a non-confidential version of its decision to open a State aid investigation into whether a tax rulings granted by Luxembourg to Engie, formally known as GDF Suez . . .
The European Court of Justice has today confirmed that Starbucks filed a suit in September challenging the European Commission’s decision of October 21, 2015, which concluded that an advance pricing agreement . . .
Tax specialist, Ninja-Antonia Reggelin, discusses the state of play in Germany regarding a Commission proposal for public release of country-by-country reports on multinationals . . .
The Dutch Presidency of the EU hopes to achieve political agreement in the coming months on adding a clause on minimum effective taxation (MET) to the interest and royalties directive, according to a roadmap of the . . .
The EU Commission will offer in early March an action plan proposing VAT simplification and anti-VAT fraud measures, including an option for a reverse charge mechanism, officials. . .
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