Transfer Pricing

Good Practices Tax Control Framework: next steps

In its webinar on January 13, 2022, the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration, in collaboration with the Dutch Association of Tax Advisors, provided further details on the background to the Good Practices Tax Control Framework and elaborated on how to apply these good practices in real-world situations.

Good Practices Tax Risk Management

Practical examples showing how an organization can deal with different elements of the Tax Control Framework (TCF).

Year end 2021 tax accounting considerations

As the end of the year is fast approaching, many organizations will soon start preparing their year end financial statements. The announced 2022 Tax Plan may have a significant impact on those financials and especially the income tax position. The impact should be reflected once the 2022 Tax Plan is (substantively) enacted.

Without own staff, no fixed establishment for VAT purposes in the case of let property

On June 3, 2021 the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) rendered judgment in the Titanium Ltd case (case no. C-931/19). The CJEU ruled that a foreign taxable person that does not have its own staff in situ in a Member State cannot have a fixed establishment for VAT purposes in that Member State either.

New policy statement on VAT fixed establishments

The policy statement, among other things, lays down the Dutch viewpoint on the concept of a fixed establishment and the VAT treatment of transactions between a head office and a fixed establishment.

OECD Guidance on the transfer pricing implications of the COVID-19 pandemic

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-333/20). This case again shows that the concept of fixed establishment for VAT purposes is evolving.