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Executive Summary: The Court of Justice has held that Italian rules imposing withholding tax (WHT) and data-gathering obligations on platforms active in the short-term property rental sector were not...
Author(s): Edward Buxton
The taxation of cryptoassets is far from straightforward. Even if we assume that most tax authorities ultimately want to replicate the tax treatment of equivalent traditional assets, there are a numbe...
Author(s): Brin Rajathurai, Cyrus Pocha
Innovation and transformation are the watchwords for life sciences in 2022. Digitization and personalization trends are set to continue (with AI, data and MedTech primed to play an increasingly promin...
Author(s): Harriet Hanks, Jennifer Bethlehem, Adam Golden, Laura Whiting, Jenny Leahy, May Smith
In recent years, the US has watched the spread of unilateral digital taxes across the world with concern, seeing them as unfairly targeting its big tech companies. In some instances, it has launched t...
Author(s): Brin Rajathurai, Katharina Kubik, Lorand Bartels, Joshua Critchlow
There was great fanfare in July when over 130 countries signed up to the OECD’s two pillar framework. This was a pivotal moment and the culmination of years of negotiations and compromise. However, wh...
Author(s): Brin Rajathurai, Paul Davison, Robert Scarborough
In July a significant milestone was achieved in the quest for global consensus on international tax reform when 131 of the 139 members of the Inclusive Framework reached agreement on the two-pillar so...
Author(s): Brin Rajathurai, Paul Davison
The OECD is tantalisingly close to agreement on its two-pillar approach to redesigning the international tax system, in large part due to a change of tack by the US administration. Whilst it would be ...
Author(s): Brin Rajathurai
In a press release dated 9 March 2021 (in Italian), Italy’s Ministry of Finance announced (for the second time this year) plans to postpone the first-ever deadlines for: paying the digital services ta...
Author(s): Umberto Santacroce