Category: Ireland
Ireland releases tax bill, announces plan to enact interest deduction limits from 2022
On 22 October, the Irish government published Finance Bill 2020, which contains legislation to enact tax measures. The tax bill includes several provisions affecting multinational enterprises with operations in Ireland. ... - Continue reading
Ireland: Aviation Finance And Leasing Guide 2020
Guidance for the purchase of aircrafts in Ireland. ... - Continue reading
Ireland: The Impact Of COVID-19 On Tax Residence And Permanent Establishments
On 23 March 2020, the Irish Revenue released its programme meant to relieve tensions around tax residence and permanent establishments. The reason? - you guessed it right - COVID-19. Here's more. ... - Continue reading
Ireland transfer guidance addresses claims for unilateral tax relief
Lights upon Ireland's unilateral tax relief in relation to the double taxation agreement. ... - Continue reading
Ireland: Covid-19 Ireland Update – Irish Corporate Tax Residence Considerations
Ireland updates its corporate tax legislations amidst the COVID-19 crisis. ... - Continue reading
Ireland: COVID-19 Ireland Update: Tax Residence Considerations In Light Of COVID-19 Travel Restrictions
An examination of travel restrictions with regard to Irish tax residence of Irish companies and funds. ... - Continue reading
Ireland faces losing €2bn in corporate tax under OECD reform
New proposals to reform the global tax system could adversely affect the economy of Ireland. Here's more. ... - Continue reading
Ireland publishes tax guidance on tie-breaker rule for dual resident companies.
October 8, 2019- New tax guidance for dual resident companies published by the Irish Tax and Customs ... - Continue reading
Ireland: Irish Budget 2020 – A Roadmap For Irish And International Business
A guide to the Irish Budget 2020 ... - Continue reading
Ireland Issues Guide On Dual-Resident Companies
The Irish Revenue has published guidance on dual-resident companies that explains new rules introduced under the BEPS multilateral convention on tax treaties. ... - Continue reading
First Look: Ireland publishes finance bill with international tax and transfer pricing changes
The Irish government today published Finance Bill 2019, which contains legislation to enact tax measures taking effect primarily from January 1, 2020. ... - Continue reading
Ireland Budget 2020 released
On 8 October, the Irish government announced its Budget 2020 measures. Brexit and climate change are core themes of new revenue measures and expenditure commitments. Brexit remains the foremost immediate concern for the Irish economy, whereas tackling climate change requires long-term commitments to tax and spending policies. ... - Continue reading
Ireland Transfer Pricing Feedback Statement Explained
The Irish Government recently published a Transfer Pricing Rules Feedback Statement which is explained in this article. ... - Continue reading
Ireland must prepare for international tax turbulence
It looks like the world’s leading economies are determined to claim a bigger slice of the global corporate tax pie which will lead to tricky times ahead for Ireland, according to PwC tax policy leader Peter Reilly ... - Continue reading
Apple to challenge EU over record $14 billion tax dodging case
A panel of judges in Luxembourg on Tuesday will begin hearing arguments concerning the US tech giant Apple and the world’s biggest tax case. The EU General Court (EGC) will begin hearing the appeals lodged by Ireland and Apple against the EU tax ruling. It has to weigh up whether… – Continue reading
Ireland will be the ‘big loser’ if OECD tax reform fails, Saint-Amans warns
OECD tax director also criticises State’s slow move to phase out ‘double Irish’ loophole ... - Continue reading
Uber looks to the Netherlands to reduce its tax bill by $6,1bn
Uber is moving its intellectual property arm from Bermuda to the Netherlands to save $6.1bn from its tax bid, Bloomberg reported on Friday. ... - Continue reading
Switzerland, Ireland sign protocol amending tax treaty
Switzerland and Ireland sign protocol ... - Continue reading
Apple settles 10-year tax battle with France, paying a reported €500M ($570M)
Apple has settled a ten-year tax battle with France, agreeing to pay a reported half a billion Euros ($570M) in back tax. The French government had accused Apple of evading or avoiding tax due on sales made in France. The line between tax evasion, which is illegal, and aggressive tax-avoidance,… – Continue reading
Ireland recovers €572.6m in unpaid tax
The Irish taxman has managed to uncover and collect €572.6m in unpaid tax last year, an average of €1,000 per case according to the latest official figures. The data for 2018 shows Revenue officials “intervened” a total of 572,785 times during the year, with around 99% of taxpayers willingly handing… – Continue reading
Is this the end of the road for the EU’s digital services tax?
Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany block digital services tax plan in Brussels. The spectre of a 3pc digital services tax (DST) levied by the EU against multinationals has been vanquished for now after Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany joined forces in what is being heralded as a coup for diplomacy…. – Continue reading
Ireland, Malta Close ‘Single Malt’ Tax Avoidance Structure
Ireland and Malta have agreed to close the “Single Malt” – an aggressive tax planning structure in which some multinational corporations use a company incorporated in Ireland but tax-resident in Malta. The Competent Authority Agreement – entered into as per the provisions of Article 24 (mutual agreement procedure) of the… – Continue reading
Corporate America flees zero-tax Caribbean havens after crackdown
Many U.S. multinational corporations have packed up or are choosing to open subsidiaries in low-tax, rather than no-tax, countries that are seen as more legitimate than the formerly popular island destinations of the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. They’re fleeing in response to regulations from the European Union that require… – Continue reading
Germany urges global minimum tax for digital giants
FRANKFURT AM MAIN: German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz in an interview said he backed a global minimum fiscal regime for multinationals as Europe looks to levy tax notably on US tech giants. “We need a minumum tax rate valid globally which no state can get out of (applying),” Scholz, a… – Continue reading
Ireland Implements New Exit Tax Regime
Ireland’s 2018 Finance Bill legislates for a new exit tax regime compliant with the EU’s Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive. The exit tax charge was introduced via financial resolution on Budget night, October 9, 2018, and applies to certain events occurring on or after October 10. Finance Bill 2018 formally legislates for… – Continue reading
Bahamas Meets Tax Exchange Deadlines
The ministry of finance last night said The Bahamas had met the September 30 deadline to begin automatic tax information exchange (AEOI) with some 35 partner jurisdictions. Revealing that the first such exchange with another country had already occurred, the ministry said this further demonstrated The Bahamas’ commitment to meet… – Continue reading
Advocacy Group Says EU’s Tax Haven Blacklist Is Failing
Tax havens are typically assumed to be islands in warm climates offering low tax rates for organizations looking for a lucrative loophole. But these “havens” are also sought after for opaque financial laws that can allow organizations to get away with illegal activity, like money laundering. Now, a new report… – Continue reading
Pharmaceutical giants named and shamed in tax avoidance investigation
Four pharmaceutical giants have been named and shamed for depriving Australia of $215 million a year in tax avoidance. Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD Australia), and Abbott – which make household name brands like Band Aid, Baby Oil, Centrum and ChapStick –were found to have unfairly… – Continue reading
Irish Corporate Tax Reform Pushed By MPs, To Shore Up Tax Base
The highly concentrated nature of Ireland’s corporation tax receipts represents “an unacceptable level of risk,” according to parliament’s Public Accounts Committee. The PAC has published a new report on Ireland’s corporation tax receipts. Corporation tax accounted for 15 percent of total tax receipts in 2016, with 70 percent of all… – Continue reading
ITAT asks Google to pay Tax on Adwords Payments [Read Order]
In a major setback to Google India, the Bengaluru bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) held that the payments relating to Adwords made by the Company to its parent firm Google Ireland is subject to TDS provisions in India as the same constitute ‘royalty’ under the Income Tax… – Continue reading
EU clears way for Ireland’s sugar tax to come into effect next week
Ireland’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages will come into effect on 1 May after the European Commission (EC) concluded that the levy does not involve state aid. The country had planned to introduce the tax on 6 April – the same day as the UK’s levy started – but it was… – Continue reading
Apple Will Start Paying Back Taxes to Irish Government Next Month Amid Legal Battle With European Regulators
Apple will start paying 13 billion euros in back taxes to the Irish government from May, according to the Financial Times, nearly two years after the European Commission ruled that the company received illegal aid from the country that saw its tax bill significantly reduced over the past few decades…. – Continue reading
Vizor Software Launches CbC Reporting Solution for Tax Authorities
Tax Authorities in jurisdictions who have joined the OECD/G20’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) inclusive framework can now avail of Vizor’s new Country-by-Country (CbC) Reporting module to fully meet their obligations set out under Action 13. DUBLIN (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 11, 2018 Today, Vizor Software announced the launch of its… – Continue reading
Digital firms with ‘big presence’ in India will have to pay taxes here
Finance Ministry’s move under BEPS treaty will impact Google, Facebook, Amazon MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 5 Digital players such as Google, Facebook and mobile application services providers must pay taxes in India on income generated from Indian consumers even if the companies’ infrastructure is physically located abroad. According to a new proposal… – Continue reading
Ireland, Hungary Unite Against EU Tax Harmonization
The leaders of Hungary and Ireland have both expressed their opposition to the prospect of additional tax harmonization within the EU. Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar was in Hungary to visit his counterpart, Viktor Orban. Reuters reported that, during a joint news conference following their meeting, Orban said that his… – Continue reading
Irish Revenue’s Tax Enforcement Work Yields Results
Non-compliance “interventions” by the Irish Revenue yielded EUR492m (USD594m) last year, according to the latest figures published by the tax authority. Revenue has published its preliminary results for 2017. They show that Revenue completed 646,633 compliance interventions during the year. There were 24 criminal convictions for serious tax and duty… – Continue reading
Apple Begrudgingly Agrees to Pay Ireland Nearly $15 Billion in Back Taxes
Apple, whose CEO Tim Cook likes to talk a big game about how the tech industry should be more socially responsible while overseeing an international tax-avoidance regime that puts Scrooge McDuck’s gold-filled vault/swimming pool to shame, has agreed to repay Ireland $14.6 billion (around €13 billion) in unpaid taxes, the… – Continue reading
Irish Revenue Launches New Tax Evasion Inquiry
The Irish Revenue has announced that a new inquiry is underway to identify and pursue taxpayers engaged in offshore tax evasion and avoidance. Revenue said that the inquiry is being conducted in the context of increased and ongoing sharing of information between tax administrations, and of the changes to voluntary… – Continue reading
Senate’s Offshore Tax Ideas Could Be a ‘Goldmine’ for Some Companies
Plan proposes 12.5% tax rate on intellectual-property income Bills ‘upend decades of U.S. tax policy’ on tight deadline U.S. companies that make billions of dollars from patents and other intellectual property held offshore would be eligible for a special 12.5 percent tax rate on those earnings under the Senate tax… – Continue reading
CCCTB FAQ
The European Union Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) has been talked about recently as a solution to the problem of an imperfect pan-EU corporate tax system, which allows large companies, particularly those with a digital presence, to detach profits from value-creation, and pay tax in low-tax jurisdictions. But what… – Continue reading
Apple defends moving offshore profits to the tax haven of Jersey
The company known for the ‘double Irish’ scheme is moving its subsidiaries’ tax residency. A set of leaked documents from offshore law firm Appleby has revealed that Apple stashed $250 billion in Jersey, a tiny island off the coast of France known for being a tax haven. The tech titan… – Continue reading
