November 2019 Issue
Q&A: Transfer pricing value chains and supply chains post-BEPS
FW moderates a discussion on transfer pricing value chains and supply chains post-BEPS between Yves Hervé and Vladimir Starkov at NERA Economic Consulting.
International arbitration: a new avenue for challenging tax enforcement
Ropes & Gray LLP International arbitration has been heralded for offering individuals a neutral forum to settle disputes. This benefit is important to foreign investors in developing or transitional nations, as the host-country’s courts are often viewed as being biased toward…
Is ‘Corporate America’ looking at increased tax enforcement?
Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez, P.C. Recent changes in federal tax law, along with announcements from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), have provided more than subtle signals that the federal taxing authorities are looking to increase their focus on big business, sometimes referred to as…
What’s wrong with the UK’s Digital Services Tax?
Hogan Lovells International LLP The UK’s proposed Digital Services Tax (DST) is an odd and problematic beast. The UK’s direct tax code could broadly be described as ‘follow the accounts unless you are doing something questionable or unusual’. The tax statutes in Tolley’s Yellow Tax ‘Handbook’…
Argentina presents yet another example of abusive or aggressive tax collection
Canosa Abogados The European Union (EU), as well as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), have been cracking down on concepts such as ‘tax abuse’ and ‘aggressive tax planning’. Tax abuse is normally referred as to the achievement of improper tax…
Can space activities be taxed?
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP As films like ‘Gravity’ and ‘Apollo 13’ remind us, space travel is intrinsically hazardous; to venture there risks death. But what of life’s other dread certainty – taxes? Of all the myriad possible future uses of space – space tourism, asteroid mining, research and…
Q&A: Digital transformation of the tax function
FW moderates a discussion on the digital transformation of the tax function between Jen Deutsch, Luiz Fernando Rezende Gomes, Holly Hamby and Emily VanVleet at Deloitte.
CONTRIBUTORS
Canosa Abogados
Deloitte
Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez, P.C.
Hogan Lovells International LLP
NERA Economic Consulting
Ropes & Gray LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP