The European Commission is consulting until 21 May 2017 on technical aspects of the EU legislation on energy taxation. Comments are invited via an online questionnaire. See http://bit.ly/2oUIC43.
The European Parliament has published two papers examining the role of professional advisers in facilitating money laundering, tax avoidance and tax evasion.
The United Arab Emirates has become the 109th jurisdiction to sign the OECD’s multilateral convention on mutual administrative assistance in tax matters.
This report, by the Lexis®PSL Tax, Private Client and Pensions teams, highlights the key provisions in the 2017 Finance Bill, published on 20 March, that have not been previously published in draft, or which have been published with significant amendments since the last draft.
The European Parliament committee on economic and monetary affairs has put forward a number of amendments to the Commission’s proposal, agreed by ECOFIN ministers in February, to extend the hybrid mismatch rules to cover arrangements with non-EU countries from January 2020.
A survey of senior in-house tax experts, by Tax Journal in association with FTI Consulting, assesses the initial impact of the OECD’s recommendations on tackling base erosion and profit shifting.
The EU Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs and Civil Liberties committees have voted to agree further amendments to the EU anti-money laundering directive, which would allow EU citizens to access registers of beneficial owners of companies without having to demonstrate a ‘legitimate intere