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Pillar Two is gathering further momentum with announcements this month from nine territories, reports Tim Sarson (KPMG).
In May, the EU General Court delivered two judgments on fiscal state aid. George Peretz QC (Monckton Chambers) explains why they still matter in the UK in light of the UK’s proposed state aid regime.
In our continuing series, Heather Self examines the tax headlines in the national media. This week, the Labour party’s proposed tax raid on the tech companies.
In this new regular column, Heather Self (Blick Rothenberg) provides an expert view on a tax issue which made the headlines in the national press. The first topic under review – how much tax should Amazon pay?
 

Amazon is now booking sales through a number of branches in Europe. Jonathan Cooklin and David Wilson (Davis Polk) consider what led to the change and the likely impact.

On 16 January 2015, the European Commission published the non-confidential details of its decision taken in October 2014 to open a formal state aid investigation into a ruling by the Luxembourg tax authorities in favour of Amazon’s transfer pricing arrangements dating back to 2003.

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