Tax & Legal

Finance Committee approves amendments on two double tax agre ...

On 6 July 2022 the Finance Committee of the German Bundestag (whose working scope basically coincides with the responsibilities of the Federal Ministry of Finance) approved specific revisions to the double tax treaties with Mauritius and Mexico.

German Finance Minister talks “minimum taxation”

According to various statements of the German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on 22 May 2019, a system of international minimum taxation will be discussed at the forthcoming G20 (June 2019) and G7 (August 2019) meetings. The aim is to agree such a system (within the terms of the Global Anti-Base Erosion "GloBE" agenda and given the name “BEPS 2.0”) with the other 128 states of the OECD in the Summer of 2020.

Bundesrat reacts positively to exchange of information for t ...

At its sitting on 22 September 2017 the Bundesrat (Federal Council/upper house) expressly welcomed the proposal for an amendment of Council Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation to impose a reporting obligation on cross-border schemes. It has long been a demand of the Bundesrat that rules on reporting obligations be introduced.

Country-by-Country Reports: German Ministry of Finance relea ...

On 20 December 2016 legislation was passed introducing measures to combat base erosion and profit shifting. A part of this legislation - introduced in the new Section 138a of the General Tax Code - imposed an obligation on multinational enterprises to report annually for each tax jurisdiction in which they do business, so-called Country-by-Country (CbC) reports.

Multilateral Convention to counter aggressive tax avoidance ...

On 7 June 2017 Germany together with the representatives of over 60 countries signed the multilateral convention, which should transpose the main recommendations of the G20/OECD Project against Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS Project) into existing bilateral tax treaties.

Restriction of tax relief on royalty payments: draft bill re ...

On 25 January 2017 the German government published a draft bill proposing a restriction of tax relief on royalty payments made to related parties from 2018 onwards.

Bundesrat gives its assent to the packet of measures against ...

In its last session of the year, the Federal Assembly (Bundesrat) gave its assent today to the Act to Implement the Amendments to the EU Mutual Assistance Directive and to Introduce Further Measures to Combat Profit Reduction and Profit Shifting

Packet of measures against profit reduction and profit shift ...

On 23 September 2016, the Federal Assembly (Bundesrat) gave its response to the draft of the Act to Implement the Amendments to the EU Mutual Assistance Directive and to Introduce Further Measures to Combat Profit Reduction and Profit Shifting (“the draft Act”) and proposed some further measures

Tax & Legal News - Special Issue, June 2016