The finance ministry has decreed that Supreme Tax Court judgments limiting the income adjustments under the Foreign Tax Act to questions of amount are not to be followed as precedents prohibiting adjustments by reason of the nature of the transaction under review. Continue reading
The ECJ has held that the continued liability to German tax on German sources income of a former resident is not discrimination prohibited by community law. Continue reading
The Supreme Tax Court has held that an income adjustment for the interest lost on an interest-free loan to a foreign subsidiary can be made under the Foreign Tax Act unless the loan was granted as a substitute for share capital. Continue reading
The Supreme Tax Court has held that a Dublin docks reinsurance company that subcontracted its operation under a management agreement was an active business within the meaning of the Foreign Tax Act.