This content is from: United States APM Terminals global tax head: Divergent thinking is the way forward In part two of International Tax Review’s exclusive interview, Steven Ouwerkerk, global head of tax & treasury at APM Terminals, based in the Netherlands, discusses the transition from adviser to in-house professional... By Matthew Gilleard July 31 2014
This content is from: United States Pfizer and AstraZeneca go separate ways…for now After the failure of the Pfizer-AstraZeneca transaction at the end of May, the two companies have now announced new deals with other companies. But the two drugs companies could return to the proposed inversion deal l... By Matthew Gilleard July 30 2014
This content is from: United States US lawmakers call for greater economic patriotism as inversions continue The Senate Finance Committee this week held a hearing on proposals to reform the taxation of multinational enterprises, and given the recent trend of US companies inverting abroad, the hearing unsurprisingly focused o... By Matthew Gilleard July 24 2014
This content is from: United States APM Terminals global tax head: The importance of continuous dialogue with your CFO In the first part of International Tax Review's exclusive interview, Steven Ouwerkerk, global head of tax & treasury at APM Terminals, based in The Hague, Netherlands, talks about the need for in-house tax teams to ma... By Matthew Gilleard July 24 2014
This content is from: European Union Irish-German relationships – tension over tax? A recent report criticising Ireland’s economic growth plan – initially labelled as coming from the German Bundestag Finance Committee – has caused controversy and tension in Irish-German relations, but an analysis of ... By Matthew Gilleard & Jon Montgomery July 24 2014
This content is from: Global OECD answers your questions about the global automatic exchange standard EXCLUSIVE: On Monday July 21 the OECD released the full version of the Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters, which requires financial institutions to report detailed financia... By Ralph Cunningham July 23 2014
This content is from: Australia How to plan for Australia’s corporate tax cut Camron Allen, partner at WTS Australia, looks ahead to next year’s corporate tax cut and outlines what taxpayers can do now to plan for the rate reduction. By ITR Correspondent July 21 2014
This content is from: United States Arthur Laffer: Where US tax policy has gone wrong Arthur Laffer, renowned economist and inventor of the curve that bears his name, met with International Tax Review to discuss what he would change about US tax policy, why he favours a flat tax and why simplification ... By Aaran Fronda July 21 2014
This content is from: Guernsey Tax justice campaigners point out holes in UK’s planned beneficial ownership register Campaigners including Christian Aid, Global Witness and Tax Research have hailed the UK government’s proposal to implement a register of beneficial ownership as a world first. But they are now warning that the registe... By Matthew Gilleard July 19 2014
This content is from: United States Why Danaher Corporation is not looking to invert Despite the recent spate of corporate inversion transactions, not all US taxpayers have caught the inversion bug. Danaher Corporation's Jim Ditkoff tells International Tax Review "Congress can do whatever they want wi... By Matthew Gilleard July 17 2014
This content is from: United States Inversions trend continues to cause controversy Medtronic and Covidien announced last weekend that they intend to complete a $43 billion tie-up and fellow US pharmaceutical company, AbbVie, is set to send a formal $31 billion offer for Irish rival Shire today: the ... By Matthew Gilleard July 17 2014
This content is from: Qatar Al-Thani takes CFO and tax roles at Qatar Financial Centre Authority By ITR Correspondent July 13 2014
This content is from: Global Have your say on ITR's development The new www.internationaltaxreview.com website went live in late May. Take the opportunity to influence how it develops by completing our survey. By Ralph Cunningham July 13 2014
This content is from: Brazil Brazilian corporate taxes: Moving forward to a new regime As a result of Law 12,973 being enacted in May, the rules applicable to Brazilian corporate income taxes and taxes on gross revenues have changed. Andrea Bazzo Lauletta and Flavio Mifano, of Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho,... July 09 2014
This content is from: United States US concern over Swedish interest deductibility reform proposal A Swedish committee on corporate taxation has recommended changes to the rules governing interest deductibility. Hundreds of US businesses are not happy with the proposed reforms. By Matthew Gilleard July 09 2014
This content is from: Bahrain Establishing a business in the Qatar Financial Centre Ian Anderson, Chief Finance Officer and Director of Tax, Qatar Financial Centre Authority, presents a hypothetical case study of the tax considerations for a company wishing to set up in Qatar through the Qatar Financ... July 09 2014
This content is from: India Pro-business Jaitley makes right noises in Indian Budget, but concrete action lacking Delivering his first Budget speech today, Arun Jaitley, India’s new finance minister, pledged to maintain a stable tax environment, but disappointed multinational taxpayers by not removing rules on retrospective tax. ... By Matthew Gilleard July 09 2014
This content is from: United Kingdom UPDATE: UK’s main opposition party outlines tax plans Labour, the opposition political party in the UK, will raise corporation tax if it comes to power after the next election. And Shabana Mahmood, shadow exchequer secretary to the Treasury says her party would also focu... By Matthew Gilleard July 09 2014
This content is from: Germany Germany announces full EITI implementation The German government has committed to prepare for the full implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). By Matthew Gilleard July 08 2014
This content is from: United States Green to head financial services and tax practice at Squire Patton Boggs By ITR Correspondent July 08 2014
This content is from: United States Companies under pressure to consider inverting The popularity of corporate inversion transactions has grown considerably in the past few years, with notable examples including Medtronic-Covidien, Actavis-Warner Chilcott, Elan-Perrigo and Liberty Global-Virgin Medi... By Matthew Gilleard July 03 2014
This content is from: Algeria COMMENT: The IMF's new paper on spillovers - time to rethink the rules for developing c... The IMF has stirred up the debate on the global tax system in an important new staff paper, "Spillovers in International Corporate Taxation", which quantifies the knock-on effects of tax competition and shows that the... By ITR Correspondent July 02 2014
This content is from: United States Differing approaches to BEPS: The US and Germany The OECD’s project on providing ways to tackle base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) is at the forefront of the minds of tax directors and other stakeholders all over the world right now. But different jurisdictions... By Matthew Gilleard July 01 2014
This content is from: European Union Is tax competition bad? With accusations of cosying up to multinationals and engaging in a race to the bottom, there is an assumption that tax competition is bad. But panellists at the Oxford Business School’s Summer Conference on Tax Compet... By Matthew Gilleard July 01 2014
