News & Analysis as of

Corporate Taxes Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development United Kingdom

Walkers

15% Global Minimum Tax Rate: Draft Legislation lodged in Jersey

Walkers on

Following Jersey's intention to implement the OECD proposals for a 15% global minimum tax rate (known as "Pillar 2") in May 2024, draft legislation has now been lodged introducing a new standalone Multinational Corporate...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - January 2024

Proskauer Rose LLP on

Welcome to January’s edition of our UK Tax Round Up. It was announced this month that the next UK Budget will take place on 6 March 2024. HMRC also published responses on its permanent establishment consultation. In addition,...more

Conyers

Unveiling Tax Realities: Debunking Myths about the British Virgin Islands

Conyers on

In this review of taxation and the British Virgin Islands, Conyers Corporate Counsel Nicholas Kuria discusses some of the most commonly misunderstood notions relating to the use of offshore jurisdictions, with a focus on the...more

A&O Shearman

What does Pillar Two mean for structured finance?

A&O Shearman on

Born of the OECD’s base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project, the Pillar Two rules introduce a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% on multinationals of a certain size. The reforms reflect the outcome of an...more

A&O Shearman

UK moves closer to a Pillar Two reality

A&O Shearman on

The UK continues to progress its implementation of the OECD’s Pillar Two reforms, with further legislative progress and publication of draft guidance by HMRC....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

UK Budget 2023 – Key Tax Measures

The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered the United Kingdom (“UK”) Budget for 2023 on 15 March 2023. The Budget was delivered against a backdrop of some familiar political headwinds, caused by the lengthy shockwaves of...more

Hogan Lovells

Applying an arm’s length comparator to intra-group debt: the role of third-party covenants

Hogan Lovells on

When applying the UK’s transfer pricing rules to compare an intra-group loan to the hypothetical arm’s length transaction that an independent third-party lender would have agreed to, there is no scope to read in covenants...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - May 2022

Proskauer Rose LLP on

Welcome to May's edition of the UK Tax Round Up. This month has seen a number of interesting court decisions, an important opinion of the European Commission’s Advocate General and the commencement of a Treasury consultation...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - June 2021

Proskauer Rose LLP on

UK Case Law Developments - Income tax consequences of pension-related payments in E.ON v HMRC - E.ON v HMRC concerned a large UK power and gas supplier, which paid certain lump sum payments, called “facilitation...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

G7 Tax Agreement Marks Significant Step Toward Global Tax Reform

Latham & Watkins LLP on

The agreement builds on the two-pillar approach outlined by the OECD and aims to tackle the challenges arising from an increasingly globalized and digital economy. Key Points: ..Under Pillar One, the largest and most...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - April 2021

Proskauer Rose LLP on

UK Case Law Developments - Tax avoidance motive did not prevent availability of share for share exchange treatment - In Euromoney Institutional Investor plc v HMRC, the FTT held that the share for share exchange...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - February 2021

Proskauer Rose LLP on

UK Case Law Developments - EIS relief not available for shares carrying preferential rights - The Upper Tribunal (UT) in Foojit v HMRC dismissed the taxpayer’s appeal against the First-tier Tribunal’s (FTT’s) decision...more

Proskauer - Tax Talks

COVID-19: OECD updates its guidance on residence and permanent establishments

Proskauer - Tax Talks on

From the beginning of the UK’s first lockdown in March of last year we have reported on the impact of the pandemic on individual and corporate tax residence and permanent establishment risk. In April 2020 the OECD...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - December 2020

Proskauer Rose LLP on

COVID-19 Developments - Tax exemptions for coronavirus antigen costs - Draft regulations providing for employee and employer national insurance contribution (NIC) exemptions from payments made to employees to cover...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - October 2020

Proskauer Rose LLP on

UK COVID-19 Developments - UK Prime Minister’s statement on COVID-19 - On 31 October, the Prime Minister announced a number of measures designed to slow down the spread of COVID-19 to last for four weeks from 4...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - March 2020

Proskauer Rose LLP on

Budget Announcements - The most significant announcements were: - immediate reduction in the lifetime limit for entrepreneurs' relief from £10 million to £1 million along with some "anti-forestalling" provisions to...more

BCLP

Importance of conformity to international tax standards – Cayman Islands added to the EU blacklist of non-cooperative...

BCLP on

The EU’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) maintains a list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes; the purpose of which is to contribute to ongoing efforts to promote tax good governance worldwide....more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - November 2019

Proskauer Rose LLP on

UK Case Law Developments - More decisions on IR35 - This month has seen two more decisions on whether broadcast presenters providing their services to the BBC and ITV respectively would or would not have been...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - October 2019

Proskauer Rose LLP on

UK Case Law Developments - Reliance on HMRC's manual statement can, but didn't, give rise to legitimate expectation - In the recent judicial review case of Roao Aozora GMAC Investment Ltd v HMRC, the Court of Appeal...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

OECD Holding Public Consultation on the Tax Challenges of Digitalization

• Public consultation follows release of OECD discussion draft on potential tax changes to address difficulties in taxation caused by the digital economy. • OECD hopes to produce “consensus document” with proposed...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

European Tax Update January 2019

We set out below a recap of some of the key European and international tax developments to note at the start of 2019. This alert provides a brief summary of the following...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

International Taxation in the Digital Era: The Rapidly Evolving European Perspective

Europe’s politicians worry that international tax rules have not kept pace with the digital economy and too easily allow multinationals to organize their global operations to minimize net taxable profits in high-tax European...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - December 2017

Proskauer Rose LLP on

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2017-19 - The first version of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2017-19 was published on 1 December 2017. The majority of the Bill's content had been previously announced at the Autumn 2017 Budget (see...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - October 2017

Proskauer Rose LLP on

UK Tax News and Developments - Government White Paper on Customs Bill - On 9 October, the Government published a White Paper setting out its approach to the introduction of a new customs and VAT regime after the UK...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

UK Tax Round Up - September 2017

Proskauer Rose LLP on

UK Tax News and Developments - Finance (No 2) Bill 2017 - The second Finance Bill of 2017, known as Finance (No 2) Bill 2017, has now been published. As expected, this contains most of the provisions which were dropped from...more

38 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide