The path to tax transparency in the Benelux
In recent years, tax authorities, corporate management, but also civil society, investors and customers, are increasingly demanding more tax transparency and tax risk management. These stakeholders require transparency from multinational companies, and transparency is all about fostering trust and maintaining and building reputation. Now more than ever, companies need to be able to demonstrate that they are continuously ‘in control’ of tax risks.
Updated ESG Tax Tracker - Global developments in ESG-related taxes, incentives and grants
The KPMG ESG Tax Tracker, providing insight into the global ESG and Sustainability landscape for taxes, incentives and grants. The regulatory landscape is changing rapidly. Governments across the globe are introducing tax measures and incentives to positively influence behaviors that are impacting the environment and contributing to climate change
Sustainability and the tax function: defining ESG
In recent years the public debate about corporate social responsibility (CSR) and taxation has seen an upsurge with the public, including civil society organizations and authorities (including the EU institutions) steering businesses towards more regulation and transparency regarding their environmental, social and governance (ESG) tax matters.
Revenues EU ETS and CBAM for the EU?
On December 22, 2021, the European Commission published its proposal for the next generation of EU own resources. There are from a Tax Sustainability perspective two proposed new resources of revenue in relation to the EU budget.
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-location services do not constitute the leasing of or service attributable to immovable property. Secondly, in the BlackRock case, the Court confirmed that the provision of a single management service is not partially VAT-exempt.
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 the VAT exemption for investment management services provided to CLOs. We also discuss four other VAT-related subjects: an interesting judgment from the Court of Appeals Den Bosch regarding the VAT recovery methodology of a financial institution, the opinion of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the VAT treatment of purchased investment management services that are used for both Special Investment Funds as well as non-Special Investment Funds, a judgment by the Noord-Holland District Court on the VAT position of a company pension fund, and recent developments with respect to the term ‘fixed establishment’ for VAT purposes
FS Tax Newsletter | January 2020
Last year our first FS Tax Newsletter for 2019 discussed the CJEU judgment rendered in the Morgan Stanley case, concerning the right of a branch to recover input VAT if it (partially) provides support services to the head office in another EU Member State. We will be discussing in this newsletter a similar matter that has been presented to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling in the Bank of China case. We also discuss another case concerning the VAT position of fixed establishments. It seems that branches and VAT are still a hot topic in 2020.