Strategizing Multinational Tax Risks

EY’s Global Tax Alert summarizes recent BEPS developments around the world:

Click to access 2016G_CM6166_The%20Latest%20on%20BEPS%20-%2018%20January%202016.pdf

Highlights:

• Australia’s client experience roadmap re: its multinational anti-avoidance law (MAAL)
• Belgium’s adverse State Aid ruling by the European Commission re: its excess profit tax rulings, which is expected to be appealed
• Chile’s new sworn statement / tax disclosures (highlighted in a recent post)
• Finland’s draft proposal for country-by-country (CbC) reporting and transfer pricing documentation in a Master / Local file context
• Greece’s circular identifying preferential tax regimes
• Korea’s draft decree for transfer pricing documentation
• Luxembourg’s IP amendments and adoption of the EU Parent-Subsidiary Directive’s proposals
• Netherland’s CbC and transfer pricing documentation requirements
• Norway’s new rules for interest limitations, participation exemption regime inapplicable for hybrid instruments, and CbC reporting requirements
• Panama to announce its decision, in March, for adoption of the OECD BEPS recommendations

The trend for recent BEPS updates reflects an expansion of definitive actions into unilateral measures, decisions whether / when to adopt OECD’s BEPS recommendations, new disclosures, subjective anti-avoidance rules with inherent complexity, and each country’s expression of intent re: BEPS Actions coupled with local add-on documentation requirements.

Monitoring of the global developments in the post-BEPS era has introduced new challenges, requiring additional resources and thought processes for documenting transfer pricing methodologies and the business aspect of significant transactions.