Effective as of 1 January 2017 a new article has been introduced to the already existing statutory transfer pricing framework in Luxembourg. more…
The Dutch State Secretary of Finance has announced in a letter dated 17 January 2017 the intention to discontinue the voluntary disclosure scheme. more…
Buren advises Live Nation's Ticketmaster, in respect of its acquisition of secondary ticketing firm Seatwave, on of Europe’s leading online platforms for the resale of tickets. more…
Buren advises a conglomerate of banks and other financiers on proactively restructuring loans, worth USD 450 million, of Hercules Offshore. more…
Buren advises Edison SpA on the tax aspects with of the envisaged international group restructuring. Edison is Europe’s oldest energy company and one of the industry leaders in Italy and Europe operating in 10 countries around the world. more…
The international tax system is under significant pressure. Where the OECD started the BEPS project and has published recommendations to reform this system, also the EU with its Anti-Tax Avoidance more…
More and more Japanese companies are sharing their views on Brexit in terms of the main location of their European activities. more…
In June we already posted that Luxembourg introduced a new legal publication system and that it would soon adopt a “1-Euro-company”.The latter indeed occurred in July, and this type of company will be available as from 16 January 2017. more…
On 12 September 2016, The Netherlands and China have signed the social taxation treaty which is expected to take effect in 2017. more…
In today's world tax planning strategies are scrutinized by tax authorities. Especially measures are taken to tackle strategies that exploit gaps and mismatches in tax rules (the so-called base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS)). more…
Luxembourg parliament recently twittered that the “one euro company” will see daylight as per 15 January 2017. more…
Luxembourg is aiming in reducing the administrative burdens. As part of this project, it has been modernizing the Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register ("Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés" - "RCS"). The last step of this modernization was to simplify the legal publication system. more…