The OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations (OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines) provide orientation when applying the arm’s length principle. On 20 January 2022, the OECD published a new version of these Transfer Pricing Guidelines. It is available in English and French on the OECD website. The OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines 2022 replace […]
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On 21 December 2021, a new EU Directive (“Directive (EU) 2021/2101”) entered into force, amending the EU Accounting Directive. Under the Directive, companies are required to publish a so-called “report on income tax information” (also referred to here as “Public CbCR”). The goal of Public CbCR is to introduce an instrument for increasing transparency and enhancing […]
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Shortly before the end of 2021, the European Commission (EC) presented a proposal for an Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (so-called “ATAD 3”) to prevent the misuse of shell (or letterbox) entities. The planned directive envisages extensive reporting obligations for shell entities, which may potentially lead to a loss of tax benefits (e.g. arising from application of […]
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On 22 December 2021, the European Commission published its proposal for a Council Directive to introduce a global minimum effective tax rate for large multinational groups and large-scale domestic groups operating in the European Union. This is intended to implement the OECD Pillar 2 rules (‘Model Rules’) in the EU Member States. The OECD Model Rules were […]
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Almost a year after the publication of the draft Transfer Pricing Guidelines, on 7 October 2021 the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance has finally issued the new Austrian Transfer Pricing Guidelines (ATPG 2021 or Guidelines). Being an extensive revision of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines from 2010 (TPG 2010), the ATPG 2021 aim at reflecting BEPS-project […]
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On 1 June 2021, the Austrian Ministry of Finance (MoF) published EAS (Express Answer Service) 3432. In this letter ruling, the MoF confirmed its previous view that there is only one set of circumstances in which activities, which by their nature constitute preparatory or auxiliary activities, do not lead to the creation of a permanent establishment […]
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Due to the COVID-19 prevention measures, many employees have for several months been unable to carry out their activities at the location at which they would normally have worked before the pandemic. In cross-border circumstances, this can lead to undesired changes in taxation rights between states – for example, due to the creation of permanent […]
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The measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic have caused severe restrictions on international mobility. In international tax law, this could lead to unintended changes in the right to tax between countries, such as through the creation of a permanent establishment (PE) or a change in the place of effective management for companies operating internationally. The […]
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