CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 23 September 2019

BRUSSELS 23 SEPTEMBER 2019 Apple’s State Aid Appeal Heard by EU General Court Apple’s €14 billion Euro appeal against the EU Commission’s 2016 decision that Ireland’s tax authorities granted Apple a “selective advantage” by failing to employ appropriate profit allocation methods to calculate the Irish source income of the Irish Apple branches, in contravention of [...]

CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 16 September 2019

BRUSSELS 16 SEPTEMBER 2019 EU Finance Ministers Discuss Energy Taxation at Informal ECOFIN Meeting At the informal ECOFIN meeting which took place from 13 to 14 September in Helsinki, Finance Ministers discussed enhanced action on climate change and energy taxation across the two days of the meeting. Ministers discussed the Commission report concerning Energy Taxation Directive published last week, [...]

CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 9 September 2019

BRUSSELS 9 SEPTEMBER 2019 Von der Leyen to Present the New EU Commissioners The elected President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will present the composition of the new College of Commissioners on Tuesday, Ms von der Leyen announced on Twitter. Reportedly all but one EU Member state (United Kingdom) have submitted personal proposals [...]

CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 19 August 2019

BRUSSELS I 19 AUGUST 2019 GAFA Representatives Give Evidence at US Inquiry into French Digital Tax Representatives from companies including Amazon, Google and Facebook will give testimony concerning the recently introduced French digital tax at a hearing taking place on 19 August 2019. The hearing forms part of the investigation launched by the Office of [...]

CFE’s Tax Top 5 – 29 July 2019

BRUSSELS I 29 Juy 2019 Commission Adopts New Anti-Money Laundering Risk Assessment Reports The European Commission has adopted four reports concerning the monitoring and implementation of EU anti-money laundering and countering terrorism financing rules. The reports include: the 2019 Supranational Risk Assessment report; a Financial Intelligence Units assessment report; an assessment report of recent money [...]