Financial Services & Finance

FS Tax Newsletter | December 2020

With the end of the year less than a month away and the Christmas holidays fast approaching you are probably busy wrapping things up and setting goals for next year. This last FS Tax Newsletter for th ...

Dutch Supreme Court decision on Dutch withholding tax on dividends paid to foreign investment funds

The Supreme Court ruled that its earlier judgments from 2013 and 2015 were an incorrect interpretation of EU law and that foreign investment funds should be entitled to a refund of the Dutch dividend ...

New questions to CJEU: towards a broader concept of fixed establishment for VAT purposes?

A Romanian Court recently sought a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU”) about the concept of fixed establishment for VAT purposes in the Berlin Chemie case (C-33 ...

FS Tax Newsletter | October 2020

This Budget Day 2020 special issue of our Financial Services Tax Newsletter includes the relevant measures of the 2021 Tax Plan for the FS sector. Furthermore this issue also addresses other rece ...

AG of the Supreme Court: management of individual assets via investment profiles is subject to VAT

On September 23, 2020 Advocate General to the Supreme Court, Ms. C.M. Ettema, issued Opinions in two interesting asset management cases.

FS Tax Newsletter | August 2020

In this edition of the FS Tax newsletter we discuss two important judgments by the Court of Justice of the European Union in VAT cases: firstly, in the A Oy case, the Court established that co-lo ...

CJEU in A Oy case: co-location services do not constitute the leasing of immovable property, nor any other immovable property service

On July 2, 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) rendered judgment in the A Oy case (C-215/19). The case concerned whether co-location services must be regarded as the leasing of im ...

Confirmation by CJEU in BlackRock case: a single management service is not partly VAT-exempt

On July 2, 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) rendered judgment in the BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited case (C-231/19). The CJEU concluded that a single fund managem ...

FS Tax Newsletter | June 2020

In this edition of the FS Tax Newsletter we address two developments initiated by the Dutch tax authorities: the further development of horizontal monitoring and the cancellation of rulings confirming ...

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