Manufacturers Push for Preservation of TCJA International Rates
The National Association of Manufacturers is calling on Congress to stop the scheduled taxpayer-adverse adjustments to rates for key international tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act set to take effect after 2025.
EU Official Says Avoiding Pillar 2 Tensions With U.S. Is Possible
It shouldn’t be "Mission Impossible" to persuade the United States to amend its minimum tax so the EU won’t have to apply the undertaxed profits rule to U.S. companies, a top EU tax official said.
Tax Brief Cautions Countries About Amount B Scoping Criterion
Jurisdictions implementing the amount B transfer pricing simplification framework should carefully analyze distributors within their borders before setting the upper bound of a key criterion for identifying in-scope distributors, a South Centre tax brief says.
Puerto Rico Told Qualified Minimum Tax May Not Be Possible
It’s unlikely that Puerto Rico will be able to introduce a qualified domestic minimum top-up tax in line with OECD pillar 2 rules because of its tax decree regime, business stakeholders told the island’s Treasury.
Apple Ruling Exacerbates Absurd Situation, Saint-Amans Said
Former OECD tax director Pascal Saint-Amans said the EU should seriously debate profit allocation among member states after the Apple state aid decision and the standstill on pillar 1 of the OECD’s global tax plan.
Romania Risks Fallout From Early CbC Reporting Rollout
The American Chamber of Commerce in the EU has written again to the Romanian Ministry of Finance, warning that its early implementation of mandatory public country-by-country reporting throws into question the country’s “commitment to competitiveness.”
Operationalizing the Formulary Apportionment Method in Pakistan
Sol Picciotto and Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed argue that it is time for countries to move toward using the formulary apportionment method for taxation of multinationals and focus on Pakistan to show how this could be done, in concert with other willing countries, based on standards now agreed to by the BEPS inclusive framework as part of its two-pillar solution.
Portuguese Tax Benefits Promote Internationally Competitive Business
José de Campos Amorim explains how recent Portuguese tax legislation presents a series of tax benefits for business development by reducing the tax burden and attracting investment in various sectors of the economy.
DAC9 Will Slash Pillar 2 Reports by Tens of Thousands, EU Says
The ninth EU directive on administrative cooperation, a proposed framework for exchanging multinational entities’ pillar 2 information between member states, will substantially reduce reporting, according to a top tax official on the European Commission.
Sluggish Carbon Pricing Progress Poised to Pick Up, OECD Says
While global emissions coverage by carbon pricing instruments appears to have stalled in recent years, emissions trading systems under development are expected to substantially expand that coverage, according to a new report.
Trump Win Casts Shadow Over OECD Global Tax Reforms
A second Trump administration, a Republican-controlled Senate, and recent actions by Republican lawmakers are likely signs that implementing the OECD’s two-pillar global tax reform plan is about to become much more challenging, observers say.
Hoekstra Ready to Consider Digital Taxation if Pillar 1 Fails
Wopke Hoekstra, EU commissioner-designate for taxation, said the bloc will have to reconsider digital taxation if an international solution to issues blocking pillar 1 can't be found in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump's reelection.
Original Sin: Cost Sharing in the United States
Elizabeth J. Stevens and H. David Rosenbloom provide an overview of how U.S. tax policy enabled multinational enterprises to use cost-sharing arrangements to their disproportionate gain, with still-reverberating consequences for global tax policy.
Kenya Resubmits Bill for Digital Tax Repeal, Global Minimum Tax
The Kenyan government has reintroduced draft legislation in Parliament that would repeal the country’s digital services tax in favor of a significant economic presence tax and implement global minimum tax rules.
Rotten to the Core: The EU's Court of Justice Decision in Apple
Ruth Mason and Stephen Daly take an in-depth look at the Apple state aid case at the EU’s Court of Justice, pointing out how it is deeply flawed and explaining the role Irish and U.S. tax law combined to play in facilitating Apple’s tax planning.
Puerto Rico Will Not Override Tax Decrees With Pillar 2
The Puerto Rican government does not plan to enact pillar 2 global minimum tax legislation that would void the constitutionally protected tax agreements that it has with multinational enterprise groups, according to an official.
Wopke Hoekstra: A Wild Card in the EU Tax Arena
Wopke Hoekstra, commissioner-designate for climate, net zero, and clean growth, will be the EU’s next tax figurehead, but observers are scratching their heads over his agenda because taxation hasn't been uppermost in his political career.
DSTs Could Violate Tax Treaty Obligations, U.N. Official Says
A U.N. official has expressed concern regarding the global shift toward implementing digital services taxes, asserting that they violate countries’ treaty obligations because they are essentially income taxes.
MNE Groups Could Benefit From MAP Expansion, IRS Official Says
Current treaty provisions limiting access to mutual agreement procedures to resident taxpayers should be expanded to consider requests by companies under controlled foreign corporation regimes or subject to upcoming pillar 2 rules, an IRS official said.
New U.N. Model Tax Treaty Article Is a Win for Developing Countries
A newly approved article amending rules on cross-border fees on services in the U.N. model tax convention will be good for developing countries, but its controversial nature may hinder its implementation, a tax professor said.
South African Tax Chief Warns Taxing Right Fight Will Intensify
Fair tax policies must take into account the increasingly contentious battle for taxing rights in the digital economy and the growing momentum of a U.N. tax convention, South African Revenue Service Commissioner Edward Kieswetter said.
U.N. International Tax Cooperation: The Terms of References Final Draft
Leopoldo Parada explains the development of an international forum for the creation of a more inclusive international tax regime; he focuses on developments at the U.N. and relates them to OECD developments in this area.
French Lawmakers to Consider Digital Tax Increase Proposals
The French National Assembly will soon discuss proposed amendments to the 2025 draft finance bill, which would increase France’s controversial digital services tax by at least 2 percentage points to raise much-needed revenue.
Global Implementation of Pillar 2 Is Top Priority, Hoekstra Says
Wopke Hoekstra, EU commissioner-designate for taxation, told members of the European Parliament that while nearly all multinational enterprises will pay the global minimum tax under pillar 2 by 2025, the system is still at risk.
European Parliament Members Have Carbon Tax Demands for COP29
An environmental committee of the European Parliament has adopted a set of demands for the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference that call on the European Commission to push for carbon pricing outside the bloc.
Tariffs: Back to the Future
Doron Narotzki explores the resurgence of high tariffs in U.S. trade policy, beginning with the Trump administration and continuing into the Biden administration, that were initially intended to protect domestic industries and reduce trade deficits, but have instead led to increased consumer prices, strained diplomatic relationships, and harmed global trade dynamics.
Untangling Corporate AMT Regs, Loper Bright's Ongoing Effect, and Stock Buyback Regs
Larissa Neumann, Julia Ushakova-Stein, and Mike Knobler review the extensive proposed corporate AMT regs, explain the ongoing effect of Loper Bright, review comments on stock buyback regs, and offer updates on the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s economic substance doctrine report, taxpayers’ compliance assurance process eligibility, and IRS advice on foreign-derived intangible income and 245A dividends received deductions.
Proposed CAMT Regs Raise Questions About Viability of Minimum Tax Regimes
Mindy Herzfeld examines the increasing complexities that multinational corporate taxpayers face in light of the recently released proposed corporate alternative minimum tax regulations, including the significant differences between accounting and income tax treatment of income.
Pillar 1 Is a ‘Rough Proxy,’ EU Competition Commissioner Says
Margrethe Vestager, executive vice president of the European Commission and commissioner for competition, told members of the European Parliament that the global community should keep working on pillar 1 and on an alternative.
U.S. Business Group’s Belgian UTPR Challenge Gains Traction
American groups and lawmakers are rallying behind a legal challenge filed in Belgium’s Constitutional Court against the undertaxed profits rule, but it could be a while before a decision is rendered — and success isn’t guaranteed.
Don't ‘B’ Left Behind: How Companies Need to Prepare for Amount B
Kartikeya Singh, Anthony Tufo, Shubhana Sattar, and Marco Fiaccadori explain the OECD inclusive framework’s amount B and the large effect it is likely to have on transfer pricing. They analyze the ways in which multinational enterprises can prepare for the various iterations that could arise as jurisdictions choose how to react to amount B.
Competent Authority Resolutions and the Creation of BEAT Liability
David Farhat, Mayowa Olujohungbe, and Bryan McGrane explain why tax authorities can and should expediently address base erosion and antiabuse tax liability that may arise from taxpayers’ use of the advance pricing and mutual agreement program.
Ireland Proposes Amount B and Global Minimum Tax Amendments
The Irish Department of Finance has issued draft legislation calling for amendments to existing laws to implement the OECD amount B political commitment and incorporate further global anti-base-erosion administrative guidance.