The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee on 7 May approved a draft directive enabling shareholders to vote on directors’ remuneration to ensure greater transparency and accountability.
City law firm RPC has said there has been a 29% rise in the number of tax investigations into internationally mobile high earners by HMRC in the last year, and that the firm ‘does not expect any let up in HMRC’s investigations of this class of high earners’.
Australia announced that it will be introducing two new tax measures in its Budget on Tuesday.
Taxand’s annual global survey of multinational CFOs has shown that multinationals are split as to whether BEPS will create a more sustainable global tax system. 52% of respondents agreed that it would do so; while 48% disagreed.
Peter Jackson (Taylor Wessing) answers a query on the refinancing of a corporate group owning UK property assets.
Shiv Mahalingham and Danny Beeton (Duff & Phelps) revisit the legislation, case law and HMRC practice relating to discovery assessments to discover what they will mean for taxpayers
Tax authorities are preparing for new models of international cooperation. Tessa Lorimer (Withers) outlines HMRC’s preparations to date, and the impact these reporting standards will have on its information gathering and enforcement powers
Andrew Goldstone and Helen Manis (Mishcon de Reya) review the latest developments that matter in the private client arena
75 in-house tax directors and heads of tax from large companies share their views on the coalition government's tax policies and priorities for a new government.
The European Commission has confirmed that it will not meet its self-imposed June deadline for its state aid investigations into tax rulings involving multinationals like Amazon, Apple, Fiat and Starbucks.