Important judgment on tax classification of financial instrument
On May 17, 2024 the Dutch Supreme Court rendered an important judgment on the tax qualification of a financial instrument that was issued by a company established in France in 2007. It concerned the ‘obligation remboursable en actions’ (hereinafter: ORA). The question was whether the instrument had to be regarded as equity (capital) or debt capital (loan) for the purposes of the Corporate Income Tax Act 1969. Although the dispute focused on the question whether the costs related to the issue of the instrument were allocable to a Dutch permanent establishment of the French company, the Supreme Court judgment potentially has a much broader scope.
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Welcome to the third Shipping & Offshore Update of 2020, in which we inform you about global developments that may be important for businesses throughout the entire sector.
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 ...