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The end of the open limited partnership and major implications for mutual funds.

Now that the winter has ended and the weather is slowly getting better, we are issuing our second FS Tax Newsletter for 2021. In this issue we summarize relevant developments that took place during February and March of this year.

This judgment could put pressure on the Dutch practice, where a combination of mediation and other services closely related to insurance that are performed as a single supply are regarded as fully VAT-exempt.

On March 12, 2021 Bart Snels, Lower House Member of Parliament for the Greens (GroenLinks), published the Memorandum in response to the Report and a supplementary Memorandum of Amendment with regard to his private member’s Bill ‘Emergency Act on the Conditional Final Settlement of Dividend Withholding Tax’, which had been presented to Parliament on July 10, 2020.

The Danske Bank judgment differs from Dutch practice. This judgment could have major implications for the VAT treatment of intra-group services, in particular if there is a limited VAT recovery right.

On March 4, 2021 a public internet consultation was launched on a bill to combat mismatches when applying the arm’s length principle. The bill focuses on informal capital arrangements.

On March 4, 2021 the Deputy Minister of Finance launched, among other things, a public internet consultation on the taxpayer status measure for ‘reverse hybrid entities’ and several related accompanying measures including for the purposes of dividend withholding tax and the withholding tax on interest and royalty payments.

In order to stay tax compliant and capture tax opportunities in an increasing digital society, instant access to good quality tax data is essential. In this article our specialists: Alexander Zegers and René Duijkers are outlining how a future-proof tax data management solution looks like and what elements needs to be considered to develop this.

This is the second edition of our NL-Africa Tax Desk newsletter. The aim of this newsletter is to give you an easy-to-read overview of the latest tax updates in Africa. As reflected in below overview, the African tax landscape is not evolving in isolation from the global tax environment. The digital tax sphere (with new laws and regulations implemented in - among others - Kenya and Nigeria), continued focus on transfer pricing and implementation of the MLI are just a few of the items impacting global organizations.