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In Haworth v HMRC [2025] EWCA Civ 822 (Haworth) the UK Court of Appeal (CoA) provided much needed clarity regarding the approach to determining the ‘place of effective management’ (POEM) in the context of the UK’s double tax...more
Tax developments - Pillar 2’s viability: Perspectives from industry leaders - In a prior edition of Tax Bytes, we explained how “some, including the Finance Ministers of Hungary and India, have questioned the viability...more
As part of its “America First Trade Policy,” the White House is exploring an arcane IRS provision that allows the United States to double the tax rates of foreign companies and individuals....more
Are you involved in offshore or foreign corporate ownership and investments? Do you have real property, assets, or foreign bank or investment accounts? U.S. taxpayers with offshore business interests, holdings, investments,...more
Bruyea v. United States (Ct. Claims Dec. 5, 2024), is the latest in a series of cases concerning whether a U.S. double tax treaty, in this case Canada's, allows a foreign tax credit for Canadian income taxes against the 3.8%...more
Background - In GE Financial Investments Limited the Court of Appeal (“CoA”) overturned the Upper Tribunal’s (“UT”) decision and held that double taxation relief was not available under the UK-US double tax treaty (the...more
In HMRC v Burlington Loan Management DAC [2024] UKUT 152 (TCC) (“Burlington”) the Upper Tribunal (“UT”) dismissed HMRC’s appeal, holding that the First-tier Tribunal (“FTT”) was right to conclude that the anti-abuse provision...more
El CDI con Reino Unido no activó cláusula de nación más favorecida de los CDI con España, Suiza y Chile para servicios técnicos, de asistencia técnica y consultoría En Sentencia con Radicado 25411 del 4 de abril de 2024,...more
On December 28, 2023, the U.S. Treasury Department (“Treasury”) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released Notice 2024-16 (the “Notice”), announcing their plan to issue proposed regulations addressing the...more
On December 19, 2023, the recently ratified Convention Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Chile for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal...more
On Oct. 25, the Chilean government submitted the reservations made by the U.S. Senate regarding the U.S.-Chile bilateral income tax treaty (the Tax Treaty) to the Chilean Congress for approval. Chilean tax practitioners...more
In many respects, the Upper Tribunal’s decision in Hargreaves Property will not have surprised tax practitioners as the decision reaffirms best practice considerations around a number of fundamental concepts in relation to...more
The identification of where a company is resident is a critical element in accessing the benefits of a double tax treaty. GE Financial Investments Limited (“GEFI Limited”) was a UK incorporated and tax resident company...more
As employers face growing calls to allow employees to ‘work from anywhere’, they should also consider the possible tax consequences of inadvertently creating a permanent establishment in another country. But what counts as...more
On 12 January 2023 the Spanish Ministry of Finance published a draft of its long-awaited list of non-cooperative jurisdictions. Spain has finally not followed the EU approach with some jurisdictions. The draft Spanish list...more
Short Summary: The case discusses the validity of a closing agreement and if a taxpayer can set aside such agreement under malfeasance or misrepresentation of fact....more
The UK’s First-tier Tribunal recently held that the payment of interest received by Burlington Loan Management DAC (“BLM”) (an Irish tax resident company) was not to be denied the benefits of the relief afforded under the...more
Brief commentary on recent cases, rulings, notices, and related federal tax guidance. International tax policy has been in focus for the past several years. The Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD)...more
More than four yeas after the announcement of negotiations, the new tax treaty between Luxembourg and the United Kingdom was finally signed on 7 June 2022, together with a Protocol adding further detail. ...more
The UK’s First-tier Tribunal recently considered the application of the “place of effective management” residency tie-breaker test found in double tax treaties in the recent case of Haworth and others v HMRC [2022] UKFTT 34...more
As discussed in a previous article, the Foreign Tax Credit (FTC) is a bedrock of the U.S. tax system to reduce the impact of double taxation. In general terms, income that is derived from a foreign jurisdiction by a U.S....more
UK Case Law Developments - Income tax consequences of pension-related payments in E.ON v HMRC - E.ON v HMRC concerned a large UK power and gas supplier, which paid certain lump sum payments, called “facilitation...more
UK General Tax Developments - Stamp Duty and COVID-19 - Since the start of the first UK lockdown in March 2020, HMRC has been accepting that documents can be stamped electronically. HMRC has now confirmed that, where...more
On 11 March 2021, the Luxembourg Tax Authorities published a Circular providing guidance on the process for initiating the mutual agreement procedure (“MAP”) under bilateral income tax treaties and explaining the interaction...more
On 1 December, 2020, the Luxembourg tax authorities issued circular L.I.R 147/2, 166/2 and eval. n°63 on the application of EU Directive 2011/96 on the common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and...more