This content is from: Global Taxation of Space: To boldly tax where no man has taxed before As human expansion into space continues to develop, the obstacles arising could be an amplification of issues already present in taxing the digital economy. By Mattias Cruz Cano September 13 2019
This content is from: Direct Tax Siemens tax head chimes in on AI and tax technology at IFA As CFOs are breathing down tax directors’ necks about artificial intelligence (AI) there is an increasing need to get in-house tax technology moving ahead of a fast-paced digital tax environment. By Danish Mehboob September 11 2019
This content is from: Indirect Tax DSTs thrust into political limelight As France’s digital services tax takes retroactive effect and the UK releases more details, tax heads spoke of a nightmarish cocktail of uncertainty and high politics. By Alexander Hartley August 29 2019
This content is from: Transfer Pricing What is ‘mere selling’ and why should we care? It may seem like an odd question for an international tax journal to ask, but the OECD’s report on its programme of work on digital tax indicates that we may be at the end of whatever certainty we thought we had about... By Contributor August 29 2019
This content is from: Global Digital tax: The loose thread unravels The BEPS process has been a little like mending an old pair of trousers. You can spend a lot of time and effort renovating the same pair to keep them in a wearable condition. However, the digital tax debate is now pul... By Alexander Hartley August 29 2019
This content is from: United Kingdom UK gets a new PM and no tax certainty Following Boris Johnson’s win in the Conservative leadership election British businesses have few assurances about the future of UK tax policy and the impact of Brexit. By Josh White July 23 2019
This content is from: United States France and the US clash over digital service tax plans The US has ramped up its opposition to France’s digital services tax (DST) by opening an investigation into it, but French senators have defiantly approved the so-called ‘GAFA’ tax anyway. By Joe Stanley-Smith July 12 2019
This content is from: European Union EU customs head: businesses should embrace, not fear, change Philip Kermode, the EU’s head of customs, says businesses must brace themselves for the modern era of customs, in which data flows are every bit as important as physical border checks. By Alexander Hartley July 10 2019
This content is from: United States Companies measure tax departments on their ability to cut risk, not effective tax rates Managing tax risk is the most important metric by which tax departments are measured, with the more traditional target of lowering the company’s effective tax rate being less important to tax heads. However, CEOs seem... By Joe Stanley-Smith July 10 2019
