Germany had the greatest number of unresolved mutual agreement procedure (MAP) cases among OECD countries during the 2014 reporting period, according to OECD statistics . . .
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin and Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, on June . . .
German, French, and Italian finance ministers have asked the EU Commission to take immediate steps to more aggressively tackle corporate tax avoidance in the EU. In a letter addressed to European economy, finance and tax commissioner Pierre Moscovici . . .
Singapore and France have signed a revised tax treaty, Singapore’s the Ministry of Finance and France’s Ministry for Finance and Public Accounts said in a joint statement January 16. The agreement lowers . . .
G7 leaders, in a joint declaration issued June 8, made a “commitment to establish binding mandatory arbitration to ensure that the risk of double taxation does not act as a barrier to cross-border trade and investment.” The leaders also said they support work being done on binding arbitration as part of the OECD/G20 base erosion profit shifting (BEPS) project, and encouraged others . . .
UPDATE (6/9/2015): Christian Aid sounds alarm over G7 plan for mandatory tax arbitration: Christian Aid, on June 9, called the G7 leaders’ expression of support for compulsory binding arbitration in multinational tax disputes “deeply troubling,” stating . . .
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