CFE’s Global Tax Top 10 – March 2020
BRUSSELS | MARCH 2020 1. Message from the CFE Executive Board on the COVID-19 Impact As each and every one of us is impacted by the alarming spread of COVID-19 and how it is affecting our lives, the CFE Executive Board had, regretfully, taken the difficult decision to cancel the CFE Annual Forum, the General [...]
In ricordo del Presidente Emerito Prof. Dott. Mario Boidi
In ricordo del Presidente Emerito Prof. Dott. Mario Boidi Il Prof. Boidi, iscritto all’ANTI Sez. Piemonte sin dal 1953 è stato Presidente della Sezione e dal 1990 al 2014 Presidente del Consiglio Nazionale dell’Anti. Nel 2004 ha presieduto la Confederation Fiscale Europeenne e nel 2017 è stato nominato Presidente Emerito. Il prof. Boidi ha rappresentato [...]
CFE’s Global Tax Top 10 – February 2020
BRUSSELS | FEBRUARY 2020 1. OECD Release Digital Tax Economic Analysis In a webcast streamed on 13 February 2020, the OECD released details of an economic analysis and impact assessment concerning the Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 proposals for taxation of the digital economy being negotiated by the Inclusive Framework on BEPS. The preliminary findings [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 17 FEBRUARY 2020
BRUSSELS 17 FEBRUARY 2020 OECD Release Digital Tax Economic Analysis In a webcast streamed on 13 February 2020, the OECD released details of an economic analysis and impact assessment concerning the Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 proposals for taxation of the digital economy being negotiated by the Inclusive Framework on BEPS. The preliminary findings of [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 3 FEBRUARY 2020
BRUSSELS 3 FEBRUARY 2020 OECD Inclusive Framework Renew Commitment to Finding Digital Tax Solution On 31 January, the OECD Inclusive Framework published a Statement and held a Tax Talks Webcast concerning progress on its two-pillar approach to address the taxation challenges of the digital economy. In the statement, the Inclusive Framework reaffirms its commitment to [...]
CFE’s Global Tax Top 10 – January 2020
BRUSSELS | JANUARY 2020 1. Digital Tax: No Support for the US ‘Safe Harbour’ Approach Despite Trade War Threats The US proposition to make Pillar One optional by allowing companies to ‘opt out’ of the newly proposed profit allocation rules continues to create tensions among governments and “will not fly politically”, the OECD Tax Director [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 11 Decembe 2019
BRUSSELS 11 DECEMBER 2019 US Letter Threatens to Upend OECD Digital Tax Discussions In a letter to the OECD dated 3 December US Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin stated that the US has “serious concerns regarding potential mandatory departures from arm’s- length transfer pricing and taxable nexus standards—longstanding pillars of the international tax system upon which [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 2 Decembe 2019
BRUSSELS 2 DECEMBER 2019 New EU Commission Takes Office on 1 December The newly elected European Commission / College of Commissioner led by President Ursula von der Leyen took over from Jean Claude Juncker over the weekend becoming the first woman to lead the EU ‘government’. With the first gender-balanced Cabinet, von der Leyen promised [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 25 November 2019
BRUSSELS 25 NOVEMBER 2019 OECD Meeting on Pillar One: Stakeholders’ Input on the OECD Secretariat Proposals A public consultation took place at the OECD in Paris on 21 November, with 450 stakeholders in attendance, 300 of which submitted written responses to the OECD Secretariat proposal on the unified approach. Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the OECD [...]
CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 18 November 2019
BRUSSELS 18 NOVEMBER 2019 OECD Publishes Stakeholder Comments on Pillar One Consultation The OECD has now published the comments submitted by stakeholders to the Secretariat proposals for taxation of the digitalising economy on the basis of the ‘unified approach’ under Pillar One. Under the proposed approach, new taxation rights for market jurisdictions are recognised as [...]