While the OECD continues with its journey to modernize the global tax system under its two-pillar approach, many countries are now beginning to embark on the road to implementation of Pillar 2 and multinationals may need to prepare for its impact as early as 2023.
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On 4 April 2022, the OECD released a new public consultation document with respect to the draft model rules for Amount A. This latest draft model rules cover the Scope building block which stipulates which MNE Groups will be covered by the Amount A model rules. This document is the fourth building block of Amount A to be released. On 4 February 2022, the OECD issued its first extensive publication on Amount A covering the two components Nexus and Revenue Sourcing.

On 14 March 2022, the OECD published its long awaited commentary to the model GloBE rules. At more than 200 pages, the commentary will take some time to fully absorb. However, it appears that the guidance still leaves some fundamental issues unanswered, such as how the GloBE rules co-exist with the US’s GILTI regime, and what simplifications/safe-harbors will be available to taxpayers to reduce their compliance burden. It is expected that this will be further addressed in the implementation framework, for which a public consultation was launched on the same day.

On 18 February 2022, the OECD released a new public consultation document with respect to the draft model rules for Amount A. This time, the draft model rules cover the Tax Base Determinations building block which deals with enabling an MNE group in scope of Amount A to determine the taxable profit which will be partially reallocated to so-called market jurisdictions. This document comes only two weeks after the OECD issued its first extensive publication on Amount A covering the two components Nexus and Revenue Sourcing. It should be noted that the latest draft model rules are a work-in-progress and subject to changes. The OECD welcomes comments from the public before 4 March 2022, following which more detailed commentary on a number of technical items is expected to be released.

On 4 February 2022, the OECD published the draft model rules for two of the building blocks of Amount A under Pillar One, namely Nexus and Revenue Sourcing. This is the first extensive publication on Pillar One since the political agreement on the Two-Pillar Solution in the form of the joint statement from the Inclusive Framework dated 8 October 2021. The draft model rules enable an MNE group in scope of Amount A (i.e., global turnover above EUR 20 billion (or local equivalent) and profitability above 10%, subject to some exceptions; hereafter referred to as a “Covered Group”) to determine its so-called market jurisdictions to which part of the Covered Group’s residual profits will be allocated.

On 20 December 2021, the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework published model legislation regarding the Pillar II global minimum tax regime: the Global Anti-Base Erosion rules.

On 22 December 2021, the European Union Commission published its proposal for a directive to “prevent the misuse of shell companies for tax purposes”. The purpose of the Proposal is to discourage the use and creation of shell companies within the European Union.

On 8 October 2021, 136 member jurisdictions of the OECD’s Inclusive Framework signed up to a revised Statement on a Two-Pillar Solution to Address the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalisation of the Economy. The Statement confirms a number of issues left outstanding from the previous statement on 1 July. Notably, it confirms the amount of residual profits to be redistributed under Pillar One, the rates of tax under the new Global Minimum Tax regime and subject to tax rule, the calculation of the substance based carve out, and the timing of the implementation of the plan. The Inclusive Framework has been able to reach near unanimous political agreement on the broad architecture of the Two-Pillar solution and will now turn to the technical challenges of agreeing the finer details ahead of publication of implementation instruments.

In brief On 29 March 2021, the Dutch Ministry of Finance published a consultation on legislative changes to the taxation of open limited partnerships (“Open C.V.”) and mutual funds (“fgr”). In addition, the consultation document comprises of policy changes regarding the qualification  of foreign legal forms. The consultation period will end on…

Read publication We are pleased to enclose the June issue of Tax News and Developments, a publication of Baker McKenzie’s North America Tax Practice Group. This month’s edition features Proposed Regulations on Deductibility of Certain Fines and Penalties and Related Information Reporting Retirement Relief Provisions Accessible to More Taxpayers and…