The sharing economy has offered numerous opportunities to individuals and businesses to minimise their tax liabilities, but tax authorities are now using sophisticated software to target those avoiding tax via platforms such as Airbnb, eBay, Amazon and Uber.
The EU Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) has accepted proposals to end the use of hybrid mismatch arrangements by multinationals, but has made several amendments to expand the rules.
The world is on the cusp of a major tax revolution as cryptocurrencies and online distributed ledger technologies, such as blockchain, push financial systems from the physical world to online. Amelia Schwanke speaks to the experts in a roundtable discussion about the tax implications and usage of digital currencies and blockchain.
Antoine Deltour, one of the two whistleblowers at the centre of the LuxLeaks scandal, said that he had “mixed feelings” after his conviction for leaking confidential information was upheld, but his sentence was reduced.
In a massive blow to tax transparency and whistleblower campaigners, Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet have failed in their quest to be acquitted for the LuxLeaks scandal in an appeal against an earlier verdict.
