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Women on Boards: quotas to increase gender balance in corporations
After almost a decade of debate on the EU platform, a provisional political agreement has been reached on a proposal for a directive to promote a more balanced gender representation on corporate boards.
CJEU limits processing air passengers’ personal data
The beginning of the summer holidays was marked by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruling concerning air travel, passengers' personal data, and prevention of terrorism. The CJEU primarily addressed the validity of the Passenger Name Record …
VAT system fit for digital age now within reach
The forthcoming reform of the VAT system is intended to improve the efficiency, fairness, and collection of tax and reduce VAT fraud. The European Commission is currently preparing concrete proposals on digital reporting, the application of VAT to…
Draft DEBRA directive allows deducting notional interest on equity financing
The European Commission has published a proposal for a directive that should balance the tax disadvantages of equity financing compared to debt financing (debt-equity bias) by allowing taxpayers to deduct from the tax base notional interest on newly…
One-stop-shop and VAT in the digital age
The Council of the EU and the European Commission are preparing further steps on VAT to simplify cross-border transactions and the import of goods into the EU for end consumers. The digitisation of VAT reports, electronic invoicing and harmonisation…
European Commission: progress in VAT system digitisation
In January this year, the European Commission launched a comment procedure to collect views on the digitisation of the VAT system in the member states, as it believes that the digitisation and automation in applying VAT across the EU will help…
Commission clamps down on shell companies
The European Commission released its first proposal for a directive aiming to prevent the misuse of shell entities for tax purposes. Companies without sufficient economic substance will be denied benefits ensuing from double taxation treaties and…
Reform of reduced VAT rates in EU
The current EU rules on VAT rates for goods and services were set almost 30 years ago and need to be modernised to correspond to developments in EU legislation. In 2018, the European Commission therefore proposed a reform of VAT rates, and an…
EU to strengthen protection for Uber and other internet platform workers
Over 28 million people in the EU work for internet platforms such as Uber, Wolt and Dáme jídlo. It is estimated that by 2025 this number could increase to 43 million. Internet platform workers are mostly hired as self-employed persons, although they…
EU wants to introduce a global minimum effective tax as early as 2023
In December last year, the OECD published draft rules for a minimum global effective corporate income tax of 15%. The European Commission subsequently issued a draft directive containing rules for the implementation of this tax by EU member states.…
EP: multinationals to publish profits and taxes paid in individual countries
On 11 November 2021, the European Parliament approved a proposal for the directive introducing public country-by-country reporting. The CbC report, informing, among other things, about profits generated and taxes paid, broken down by individual…
Changes in international taxation probably as early as 2023
The G20 has endorsed the framework changes to international taxation agreed at the OECD level (including non-member countries) on 8 October 2021. The changes are spread across two pillars containing rules for shifting taxing rights on profits from…