Peter Hongler, University of St. Gallen, predicts Switzerland will likely change its constitution because of Pillar Two—a proposal to address global profit shifting by imposing a global minimum tax of at least 15%—and took its first step in that direction by opening a public consultation on the OECD/G20 minimum tax plan for multinationals on March 13.
Leopoldo Parada, University of Leeds School of Law, analyzes the three grounds of appeal in the Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe v Commission case and warns that if the European Court of Justice agrees to follow the Advocate General’s opinion, there may be important ramifications that go beyond this transfer pricing case.
Allan Lanthier, a former advisor to the Canadian government, warns it’s time to hit the emergency brake on the OECD’s model rules for Pillar Two; while close to 140 countries agreed to the October 2021 framework, they didn’t agree to these new model rules, which introduce a lot of uncertainty and complexity.
Pilar Barriguete and Victoria Arozamena, Kroll Advisory, S.L., discuss Spain’s recent tendency to challenge intragroup services, denying its corporate income tax deductibility; this view is most recently reflected in the Spanish National Court’s January 25 ruling that it did not consider the provision of intragroup services to be sufficiently proven in the absence of a written contract.
Susi Baerentzen, Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, discusses a recent transfer pricing ruling from the High Court of Eastern Denmark in a case on the application of the EU Arbitration Convention and mutual agreement procedures; this ruling is an indication that settling disputes by arbitration is an outcome that will become ever more important in the future of Danish tax law.
Oliver Treidler and Tom-Eric Kunz, TP&C, analyze the current transfer pricing landscape in Germany, following the plethora of updates to regulations and administrative principles in 2020 and 2021, which has led to considerable uncertainty regarding tax audits as well as an increased compliance burden.
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