Deducing BEPS Action 4: Interest deductions and other financial payments

Sandy Bhogal, head of tax at Mayer Brown in London, outlines where we stand with respect to recent multilateral work to counter base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) and, specifically, Action 4 of the OECD Action Plan, after first pausing to reflect on how and why we got to this point. Conceptually, Action 4 sought to consider ways to reduce base erosion that can occur through interest payments and other economically equivalent amounts.