DOUBLE-TAXATION

Alex Rigby

James Anderson and Alex Rigby (Skadden) examine HMRC’s package of proposed transfer pricing reforms, and consider how they might assist with existing uncertainty and double taxation disputes.

David Goldberg QC

Constantine Christofi

Recent cases concerning the application of double tax treaties have seen the courts striving for common sense outcomes, write Constantine Christofi (RPC) and David Goldberg KC (Gray’s Inn Tax Chambers).

Bezhan Salehy

Deep Shah

Bezhan Salehy and Deep Shah (Macfarlanes) review the government’s extensive package of proposals that touch most areas of the UK’s transfer pricing, permanent establishment and diverted profits tax legislation.

Kyle Rainsford

Kyle Rainsford (Travers Smith) examines the ramifications of the Upper Tribunal’s decision.

Mike Lane

Zoe Andrews

In this month’s review, Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews (Slaughter and May) consider the Court of Appeal decisions in Royal Bank of Canada and Civic Environmental Systems and the consultation on transfer pricing, DPT and permanent establishment.

Bezhan Salehy

Sarah Ling

Bezhan Salehy and Sarah Ling (Macfarlanes) examine whether the Pillar Two undertaxed profits rule is susceptible to challenge under double tax agreements.

Kyle Rainsford

Kyle Rainsford (Norton Rose Fulbright) examines the first UK case about the interpretation of a purpose rule in a double tax treaty which extends the recent approach of Blackrock HoldCo 5 to the international fiscal arena.

Hugh Gunson

Guy Bud

Hugh Gunson and Guy Bud (Charles Russell Speechlys) examine the Court of Appeal’s decision which has potentially far-reaching consequences for the PAYE system.

Philip Baker KC

Dilpreet K. Dhanoa

The Court of Appeal has upheld SKAT’s claims. Philip Baker QC and Dilpreet K. Dhanoa (Field Court Tax Chambers) analyse whether, from a legal and international tax perspective, this was the correct decision.