Tax Bites Podcast: Proposed implementation of the minimum tax in the EU and the unshell proposal
On 22 December, the European Commission issued 2 proposals. One proposal deals with the introduction of the global minimum tax in the EU by 2023. The EU proposal deviates from the OECD proposal on a number of topics. Find out how the proposal will look like in this Tax Bites episode with Jean-Philippe van West and
Public Country-by-Country Reporting Directive enters into force soon
With our newsflash of 16 November 2021, we informed you of the formal approval of the public country-by-country reporting (PCbCR) directive on 11 November 2021. The directive is published in the Official Journal of the EU on 1 December 2021; it enters into force on the 20th day after its publication. Member states must introduce
Public Country-by-Country Reporting adopted
Introduction On 11 November 2021, the European Parliament adopted the Directive on public country-by-country reporting (PCbCR). The adoption of this directive concludes the procedure (see earlier newsflash) on the introduction of specific European transparency rules and requires certain European or non-European multinational groups or standalone undertakings to publicly disclose certain financial data. Content of the
Political agreement on fundamental overhaul of the international tax system
On 8 October 2021, the Inclusive Framework (IF) announced a further agreement backed by 136 (out of 140) members of the Inclusive Framework on the two-pillar approach. In the last few days, a number of countries that initially opposed the reform are now also signing up for it (e.g. Hungary, Ireland and Estonia). With this,
The European Court of Justice decides the Belgian excess profits regime constitutes an aid scheme and refers the case back to the General Court
In its decision of 16 September 2021 the European Court of Justice (‘ECJ’) overruled the judgement of the General Court of 14 February 2019. Different from the General Court, the ECJ concluded that the three conditions for an aid scheme to exist are met. The ECJ referred the case back to the General Court, which
OECD Inclusive Framework agrees on two-pillar Approach for International Tax Framework
On 1 July 2021, the Inclusive Framework (IF) announced an agreement backed by 130 (out of 139) members of the Inclusive Framework on the two-pillar approach. This approach redesigns the international tax framework. Here’s a summary of the main points of the agreement: Pillar one Pillar One is intended to re-allocate the taxing rights of
Update of the Belgian EBITDA rule provides opportunities for infrastructure and energy sector
Recently the Belgian legislator published a Royal Decree containing some clarifications on the repair law of 20 December 2020 containing changes to the 30% EBITDA rule. As mentioned in our previous Newsflash of 6 January 2021, the Belgian legislator published on 20 December 2020 new legislation in order to address criticism of the European Commission
G7 commits to a global minimum tax of at least 15% and taxation of digitalised economy
The G7 finance ministers published on 5 June 2021 a Communiqué announcing that they reached a high-level political agreement on a global tax reform. In particular, they agreed on the reallocation of a share of the profits of certain multinational enterprises to market jurisdictions (Pillar 1) and a global minimum tax of at least 15%
