OECD publishes information on the state of implementation of the hard-to-value intangibles approach by members of the Inclusive Framework on BEPS

The OECD has published jurisdiction-specific information on the implementation of the hard-to-value intangibles ("HTVI") approach. To date, 40 jurisdictions have provided information on whether their domestic legal system provides for transfer pricing rules aimed at transactions involving HTVI. This has been announced by the OECD in a press release dated 16 December 2020. Furthermore from the press release: The publication of this information is part of the monitoring process of the implementation ...

Countries have responded decisively to the COVID-19 crisis, but face significant fiscal challenges ahead

Governments have taken unprecedented fiscal action in response to the COVID-19 crisis, but countries will need to support economic recovery in the face of significantly increasing fiscal challenges, according a new OECD report Tax Policy Reforms 2020: OECD and Selected Partner Economies. This was announced by the OECD in a press release dated 3 September 2020 on the release of the report. Tax Policy Reforms 2020 describes the latest tax ...

International community makes important progress on the tax challenges of digitalisation

The international community has made important progress toward addressing the tax challenges arising from digitalisation of the economy and has agreed to continue working multilaterally towards achievement of a new consensus-based long-term solution in 2020, the OECD announced on 29 January 2019 with a press release published on their website. Countries and jurisdictions participating in the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) will step up efforts ...

OECD releases new guidance on the application of the approach to hard-to-value intangibles and the transactional profit split method under BEPS Actions 8-10

On 21 June 2018, the OECD released two reports containing Guidance for Tax Administrations on the Application of the Approach to Hard-to-Value Intangibles, under BEPS Action 8; and Revised Guidance on the Application of the Transactional Profit Split Method, under BEPS Action 10. From the press release dated 21 June 2018 as published on the website of the OECD: In October 2015, as part of the final BEPS package, the OECD/G20 published ...