News archive September 2014

List of articles in category News archive September 2014
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State aid: European Commission publishes non-confidential versions of decisions to open investigations into transfer pricing arrangements on corporate taxation of Apple (Ireland) and Fiat Finance and Trade (Luxembourg)
FATCA agreement between Brazil and the U.S. signed
Ireland – Statement in relation to EU State Aid investigations published on the website of the Irish Department of Finance
UK – HMRC releases Revenue and Customs Brief 32 (2014): VAT - policy on holding companies
Liechtenstein and the Czech Republic have signed a DTA
Canada and New Zealand have signed a Second Protocol to their existing DTA
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issue a Notice announcing their intention to issue regulations to Reduce Tax Benefits of Corporate Inversions
OECD releases Report on the Impact of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting in Low Income Countries (Part 2) and a Roadmap for developing country participation in the new global standard for the automatic exchange of information between jurisdictions
Singaporean government opens a consultation on proposed regulations to help financial institutions comply with U.S. FATCA
BEPS - G20 endorses the finalised global Common Reporting Standard for automatic exchange of tax information on a reciprocal basis

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INTERESTING ARTICLES

The UK Government released proposed changes to its provisional list of reservations and notifications under the MLI
The Danish Vestre Landsret filed a request for a preliminary ruling (VAT – Sale of building land?)
CJEU judges in Case C-8/17, Biosafe - Indústria de Reciclagens (VAT – Deduction of input tax)
CJEU judges in Case C-532/16, SEB bankas (VAT – Adjustment of deductions – Supply incorrectly subjected to VAT)
The opinion of the AG in Case C-154/17, E LATS (VAT – Notion of ‘second-hand goods’ – Notion of ‘precious metals or precious stones’)
The OECD’s Transfer Pricing Country Profile of Portugal seems also to be available
The OECD releases 13 additional country profiles focusing on key aspects of domestic transfer pricing legislation
The OECD released the second edition of its Common Reporting Standard Implementation Handbook
The Finanzgericht München lodged a request for a preliminary ruling regarding the freedom of movement of capital
Non-confidential version of the European Commission's decision to open an in-depth investigation into the transfer prices agreed upon in Dutch Inter IKEA tax rulings
The OECD releases additional guidance on the attribution of profits to permanent establishments (BEPS Action 7)
CJEU judges in joined Cases C-327/16 (Jacob) and C-421/16 (Lassus) (Interpretation of Article 8 of the Merger Directive – Deferred taxation)
Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent BEPS (MLI) will enter into force on July 1, 2018
The opinion of the AG in Case C-648/16, Fontana (VAT – The application of VAT to the overall turnover established by extrapolation)