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OECD releases comments on international tax rules for digital economy
The OECD on October 25 released public comments from 52 individuals and groups on the design of new international tax rules for digital firms. The comments aim to help an OECD task force prepare an interim report on the issue, to be presented to G20 finance ministers in April 2018. It is widely acknowledged that the current . .
Macau, Mauritius, Ukraine join the ‘inclusive framework on BEPS’ to combat multinational tax avoidance
Macau, Mauritius, and Ukraine have joined the ‘inclusive framework on BEPS,’ a group of countries that have pledged to promote the implementation of measures to combat . . .
OECD releases comments on draft tax guidance relating to profit splits, permanent establishment
The OECD today released 107 comment letters, mostly from business representatives, that respond to two OECD discussion drafts providing for common tax rules to be used to allocate multinational corporation profits among the countries in which they operate. Fifty-five comment letters relate to the OECD’s proposed revisions to its transfer pricing . . .
OECD releases 14 comments letters on conforming amendments to transfer pricing guidance
The OECD on August 24 released letters from 14 organizations responding to its request for comments on draft conforming amendments to Chapter IX of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines titled
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The new OECD/G20 guidance aligning transfer pricing outcomes with value creation: upending international contract law
US international transfer pricing attorneys Robert Feinschreiber and Margaret Kent discuss guidance developed during the OECD/G20 base erosion profit shifting (BEPS) project which applies transfer pricing concepts to contracts. . .
Business seeks greater role in crafting multilateral instrument to implement BEPS tax measures
The OECD on July 4 released 33 comment letters received in response to its discussion draft on the development of a multilateral instrument to implement the tax treaty provisions in the final OECD/G20 base erosion profit shifting (BEPS) plan reports. All the comment letters released, except for one, submitted by the BEPS Monitoring . . .
G20 finance ministers consider tax implications of digitalization, tax certainty
G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, in a communique following their March 17–18 meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany, called on an OECD task force to produce an interim . . .
OECD draft examples address tax treaty “principal purpose test” for non-CIV funds
The OECD has today released for public comment three draft examples addressing the application of the OECD/G20 base erosion profit shifting (BEPS) Action 6 principal purpose test to . . .
Tax officials preview coming OECD guidance on profit splits, attribution of profits to PEs
Tax officials provided an update of international tax and transfer pricing guidance currently being developed at the OECD, including work on profit splits and on attribution of profits to permanent establishments (PEs), at Washington DC conference sponsored by the OECD, USCIB, and . . .
IMF, OECD, UN, and Word Bank Group to jointly work on multinational business tax issues
The International Monetary Fund, OECD, United Nations, and World Bank Group today released a concept note outlining their plan to work together to help governments address the tax policy . . .
Tax officials preview coming OECD transfer pricing guidelines on financial transactions
Draft OECD transfer pricing guidelines on related party financial transactions, slated for release this summer, will include important guidance for multinationals on intercompany loans, cash pooling, and reinsurance, though reaching consensus among countries on some fundamental issues is . . .
Draft OECD transfer pricing guidance released on hard-to-value intangibles
The OECD today released a discussion draft providing guidance to tax administrations on how to implement transfer pricing guidelines on transfers of hard-to-value intangibles. An approach to hard-to-value . . .
OECD publishes updated manual on preventing BEPS through interest deduction limits
The OECD on December 22 published a report on limiting base erosion involving interest deductions and other financial payments, updating . . .
OECD surveys business about need for tax certainty
The OECD today invited business representatives to respond to a survey on how tax certainty promotes . . .
OECD finalizing BEPS multilateral instrument, concerned about EU state aid tax probes
Officials are putting the finishing touches on the multilateral instrument (MLI) to implement the OECD/G20 base erosion profit shifting (BEPS) measures, keeping it on track to be finalized this fall, senior . . .
Jamaica, Angola, Seychelles join BEPS effort to crack down on MNE tax avoidance
Jamaica, Angola, and Seychelles have joined the framework to implement the OECD/G20 base erosion profit shifting (BEPS) project to combat multinational tax avoidance, the . . .
G7 leaders pledge to steadily adopt BEPS international tax measures
Leaders of the G-7 nations of the US, UK, Canada, France, Japan, Germany, and Italy, following their meeting in Ise-Shima, Japan, vowed to “lead by example” by implementing the OECD/G20 base erosion profit shifting (BEPS) package in . . .
G20 finance ministers endorse OECD plan to open BEPS project to all countries
G20 finance ministers, during their February 26–27 meeting in Shanghai, approved an OECD-developed plan to allow all countries to participate in the implementation of base erosion profit shifting (BEPS) . . .