Sandy Bhogal and Kitty Swanson (Mayer Brown) consider the final output of action 15 of the OECD’s BEPS project and how this will apply to the UK.
Background
A number of BEPS action items – Action 2 (hybrid mismatch arrangements) Action 6 (treaty abuse) Action 7 (avoidance of permanent establishment (PE) status) and Action 14 (improving dispute resolution mechanisms) – aimed to develop tax treaty measures to address specific BEPS concerns. Action 15 proposed a multilateral instrument to facilitate the implementation of these treaty related measures across the extensive network of bilateral tax treaties (which totals more than 3 000 treaties) and thereby avoid the need for each treaty to be renegotiated separately.
After an initial report in September 2014 concluded that a multilateral instrument was both desirable and feasible the OECD’s Committee on Fiscal Affairs mandated the establishment of an ad hoc group to...
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Sandy Bhogal and Kitty Swanson (Mayer Brown) consider the final output of action 15 of the OECD’s BEPS project and how this will apply to the UK.
Background
A number of BEPS action items – Action 2 (hybrid mismatch arrangements) Action 6 (treaty abuse) Action 7 (avoidance of permanent establishment (PE) status) and Action 14 (improving dispute resolution mechanisms) – aimed to develop tax treaty measures to address specific BEPS concerns. Action 15 proposed a multilateral instrument to facilitate the implementation of these treaty related measures across the extensive network of bilateral tax treaties (which totals more than 3 000 treaties) and thereby avoid the need for each treaty to be renegotiated separately.
After an initial report in September 2014 concluded that a multilateral instrument was both desirable and feasible the OECD’s Committee on Fiscal Affairs mandated the establishment of an ad hoc group to...
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