JURIST

MAY 10, 2022

The European Parliament Monday released a report from a year-long conference among EU citizens spelling out 49 proposed changes for the EU. The conference was a joint undertaking of the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission to incorporate citizen input from across all 27 nations of the EU.

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JULY 14, 2021

An investigation into Nike’s tax activities in the Netherlands will go forward after a court in the European Union determined that Dutch tax authorities did not act improperly in initiating the probe into the Swoosh. Early this year, Nike formally challenged the Commission’s preliminary assessment of its tax dealings.

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JURIST

JUNE 26, 2024

The Denmark government reached a momentous agreement on Monday with the parties in the green tripartite to impose a tax on carbon dioxide emissions resulting from livestock. Tax Minister Jeppe Bruus pointed out that with the agreement Denmark will reach the climate goals in 2030 and take a big step closer to becoming climate-neutral in 2045.

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JURIST

MARCH 4, 2024

Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. He had been accused in Belarus of tax evasion. On the same day, a court decided to send him to a prison in Belgrade.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In the past two months, I’ve heard the following stories from lawyers: A major manufacturer contacted a management-side labor lawyer for a large union-related issue after looking at his bio. A corporate and tax lawyer got a new client after a European prospect read an article he had published on pre-immigration tax planning.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2024

The Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties), a prominent civil liberties network, published the Liberties Rule of Law Report 2024 on Monday, raising concerns about the declining state of the rule of law and weakening democratic checks and balances across the EU.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 16, 2025

You are invited to the third meeting of Migration Talks organized by the Jean Monnet Chair in Legal Aspects of Migration Management in the European Union and in Trkiye. For example, the funding of a benefit by taxes and not contributions might automatically exclude posted workers from their enjoyment. Speaker: Prof.

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JURIST

MARCH 22, 2021

The European Commission referred the UK to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Friday over failing to recover illegal state aid received by corporations in Gibraltar. Shortly afterwards, the UK submitted an amendment to Gibraltar’s tax code resolving the issue to the Commission.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2024

Slovakia’s national parliament backtracked on its controversial criminal code following concerns from the European Union, with 77 deputies voting in favor of new amendments on Tuesday. In response to the European Commission’s comments, MPs agreed to impose harsher penalties if EU financial interests are at stake.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2023

Everything that is illegal offline should also be illegal online – this postulate of the European Union’s law enforcement practice outlines the principles of online behavior in the best possible way.

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Law 360

AUGUST 27, 2021

In order to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions, the European Union proposes to levy carbon emissions at its borders and to overhaul its long-standing energy tax framework, but the latter would hold polluters directly accountable, giving it the better chance for success, says Rebecca Christie at Bruegel.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 11, 2022

On 7 December 2021, the EU Council reached an agreement on rules governing reduced VAT rates on specific goods and services.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 5, 2022

On 21 December 2021, amendments to the Income Tax Law and Special Defence Contribution Law were published in the Cyprus Government Gazette ("Law amendments") for the introduction of legislative.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Citing the recent European court judgment requiring Apple to pay €13 billion ($14.5 billion) in taxes to Ireland, European Union lawmakers demanded Thursday that the fight against tax evasion and for corporate tax harmonization be stepped up.

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The European Commission has confirmed plans to introduce an EU-wide tax on aviation jet fuel for airlines operating flights in and from the EU as part of the Commission's overhaul ‘Fit for 55' legislative package.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2024

2 e) , which covers actions that affect the European Union’s financial interests. Even though it is irrelevant whether the money used stems from EU funds the court held that the risk a secession poses to Spain’s tax collection and gross national income is enough to invalidate the amnesty for the accused.

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Law 360

JULY 12, 2024

Observers of European Union tax policy expect the EU to devote more attention to problems with existing tax legislation in the coming months as the introduction of major policy proposals takes a pause. Here, Law360 examines key tax issues to watch for the remaining six months of the year.

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Tax Treaty between Spain and Gibraltar came into effect on 4th March 2021, the taxable period of which will come into force in Spain as from 1 January 2022.

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Law 360

APRIL 9, 2024

Poland's Council of Ministers approved a measure Tuesday implementing the European Union's tax information reporting procedures for digital platform operators, known as DAC7, the country's tax authority said.

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Law 360

MAY 23, 2024

The European Commission said Thursday that six European Union countries still have failed to implement the global minimum tax for large companies, and it noted that an additional three aren't properly implementing an information exchange law.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The European Parliament gave a clear green light on Wednesday to a draft law intended to streamline refunds for withholding tax and prevent fraud in the European Union, completing a necessary procedural step in the legislative process.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

European Union members still haven't achieved the unanimous agreement necessary to pass the international minimum corporate tax known as Pillar Two, Spain's economy minister said Monday, adding that her country is open to implementing the tax by other means.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Poland delayed agreement on the European Union's 15% minimum tax Wednesday, three EU diplomats told Law360, with one saying the government revived its argument that the tax should be linked to reallocating large tech companies' profits based on an international pact.

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Law 360

MAY 22, 2023

The European Union's second-highest court accepted a case Monday challenging a European Commission ruling that the U.K. illegally extended state aid to companies through tax breaks offered in Gibraltar, after the court threw out the commission's ruling in part last year.

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Law 360

MAY 14, 2024

European Union finance ministers agreed Tuesday to a withholding tax refund law, as previous holdouts Poland and the Czech Republic withdrew their objections.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 12, 2022

European Union ambassadors unanimously agreed to a 15% minimum corporate tax for large corporations Monday, the bloc's council of member countries said in a news release.

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In this webinar we will discuss the outlook for the securitisation market in 2022 from the Irish perspective and provide practical insights for market participants.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

On 18 May 2021, the European Commission ("Commission") of the European Union ("EU") published a communication on "Business Taxation for the 21st century ".

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Law 360

JANUARY 25, 2023

Small businesses should be able to opt out of pending rules that would change the corporate tax base in the European Union, a representative from a group representing small and medium-size companies said Wednesday.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 3, 2022

The EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes (commonly referred to as EU "blacklist") is part of the EU's external taxation strategy, and it intends to assist with ongoing efforts.

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Law 360

APRIL 8, 2024

SLOTTING A proposal allowing small businesses in the European Union to file a single tax return with the administration of the business' head office as opposed to with every member country where the entity does business would cut compliance costs and encourage trade, an EU official said.

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Intelligize Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Back in October 2021, more than 130 member jurisdictions of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development negotiated the framework for new international tax rules affecting multinational companies. Moreover, the framework established a minimum global tax rate of 15% to discourage sheltering in low-tax jurisdictions.

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Law 360

MAY 24, 2023

Five European Union member countries still have tax systems liable to be abused by those engaging in aggressive tax avoidance, despite the significant strides the bloc has made to tighten its tax systems, the European Commission said Wednesday.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

Observers of European Union tax policy expect that EU policymakers could make progress on an agreement to update value-added tax rules for the digital economy in the first half of 2024, while prospects for an agreement on an anti-shell company law don't look good.

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Law 360

MARCH 4, 2024

Companies involved in mergers and acquisitions may need to adjust fiscal due diligence procedures to ensure they consider potential far-reaching effects of newly implemented transfer pricing measures, such as newly implemented global minimum tax and European Union anti-tax avoidance directives and proposals, says Patrick Tijhuis at BDO.

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Mondaq

MAY 2, 2022

On 3 March 2022, the updated EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes came into effect with its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 7, 2022

On December 7th, 2021, the European Union (EU) finance ministers agreed to update the current rules governing value added tax (VAT) for goods and services, by allowing reduced VAT rates subject.

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