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Building legal foundations: UKJT publishes legal statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (or ‘UKJT’) has published a legal statement on the status of cryptoassets and the enforceability of smart contracts under English private law, areas which have generated considerable debate in recent years. From this foundati... Is it time to reconsider policy on bank taxation? As discussed in my Viewpoint video, the UK government is heavily reliant on taxes paid by financial services. The finance and insurance sector was the largest single contributor to corporation tax in 2017/18 accounting for 26% of corporation tax liabiliti... GloBE: learning the lessons of the past The OECD published its Pillar Two paper on the Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) Proposal on Friday (Zoe Andrews' earlier post provides an overview) which requested comments on the "use of financial accounts as a starting point for the tax base determinati... Towards a "smart" VAT system? We live in a world of burgeoning automation. Transactions are increasingly automated in a range of ways, from direct debit (around since the early 1960s and still one of the most popular payment methods today) to smart contracts. However - in the UK at le... Robot delivery services: the latest in anthropomorphic marketing? Given the number of announcements this year from the likes of Starship, Segway, Ford and FedEx you would be forgiven for feeling surprised and perhaps a little dismayed that as the end of the year draws nearer, our streets are not yet filled with diligent... Gibraltar companies outside the scope of the Parent-Subsidiary Directive On 24 October, Advocate General (AG) Hogan opined that a company incorporated, and subject to corporation tax, in Gibraltar cannot avail itself of the benefits of the Parent-Subsidiary Directive (PSD). On a more positive note for the taxpayer concerned, t... Consultation on the Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) Proposal under Pillar Two Another day, another proposal to substantially change the international tax architecture.  This time it is the GloBE Proposal under Pillar Two. Pillar Two seeks to ensure that the profits of multinational enterprises are subject to a minimum tax rate by p... The ORIP rules: intangible property held in the Crown Dependencies It may be tempting to think that, following the renegotiation of the double tax treaties (DTTs) between the UK and the Crown Dependencies (Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Jersey), entities resident in one of them would fall outside the scope of the UK's rul... US Treasury Department Loosens “Earnings Stripping” Rules The latest salvo in a years-long struggle to administer US “earnings stripping” rules took another turn on 31 October, when the US Treasury Department announced that it would loosen rules designed to limit the practice. “Earnings stripping” or “interest s... Filing tax returns becomes a high risk occupation In the 2020 Finance Bill, the Italian Government announced its intention to combat tax evasion, thought to cost more than 100 billion Euros a year to a national budget in constant deficit.   In these times of blaring proclamations, politicians are marketi...