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.
OECD publishes Global Anti-Base Erosion Model Rules (Pillar 2)
On December 20, 2021 the OECD published the Global Anti-Base Erosion (‘GloBE’) Model Rules, also known as Pillar 2. The GloBE Rules aim to impose a global minimum tax of 15% on multinational enterprises with a revenue in excess of EUR 750 million.
European Commission’s response to the OECD Pillar 2 model rules
On December 22, 2021, the European Commission published a proposed EU directive to incorporate Pillar Two into EU law. The rules generally mirror the OECD model rules released on December 20, 2021 but have a broader scope that includes large-scale purely domestic groups.