Czech Rep Tax News

International tax conference on CCCTB held in Berlin

18 June 2007

Tax reform – proposed tax law amendments submitted to government

18 June 2007

Protocol to treaty between Czech Republic and Russia – details

18 June 2007

Discussion draft on application and interpretation of non-discrimination article of OECD Model – details

18 June 2007

Treaty between Czech Republic and Cyprus initialled

28 May 2007

Revised Commentary on Article 7 of OECD Model released

28 May 2007

Protocol to treaty between Czech Republic and Russia to be signed

28 May 2007

Treaty between Czech Republic and Austria enters into force

28 May 2007

New government tax reform plans – details

28 May 2007

Bill amending Investment Incentives Act

28 April 2007

ECJ: temporal effects of judgment in Meilicke against Germany should not be limited – details

28 April 2007

Treaty between Czech Republic and Cyprus – negotiations

28 April 2007

Company tax regimes of Swiss cantons exempting foreign profits incompatible state aid under EU-Switzerland Agreement

24 March 2007

Final Report on Improving the Resolution of Tax Treaty Disputes

24 March 2007

ECJ: hearing in case regarding Dutch withholding tax on outbound dividends

24 March 2007

EU Commission requests Italy not to apply a withholding tax on dividends paid to Netherlands parent companies

24 February 2007

Report on Attribution of Profits to PEs released

24 February 2007

New decree on interpretation of Income Tax Act

24 February 2007

EU Commission requests Italy to implement the Interest and Royalties Directive correctly

24 February 2007

EU Commission progresses infringement actions against Member States for discriminatory taxation of outbound dividends

24 February 2007

ECJ holds French withholding tax on outbound dividends incompatible with freedom of establishment

15 January 2007

ECJ: previous UK ACT regime regarding outbound dividends compatible with EC fundamental freedoms (ACT IV GLO) – details

15 January 2007

Protocol to treaty between Czech Republic and Russia initialled

14 October 2006

Treaty between Austria and Czech Republic ratified

12 September 2006

European Commission requested Spain to end infringement to the EC Parent-Subsidiary Directive concerning the use of anti-abuse measures

13 August 2006

European Commission refers Italy and Luxembourg to ECJ for not implementing Directive amending EC Parent-Subsidiary Directive

13 August 2006

European Commission requests Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain to terminate discriminatory taxation of outbound dividends

13 August 2006

European Commission decides that Luxembourg's preferential tax regime for 1929 holding companies constitutes incompatible state aid

13 August 2006

European Commission requests Belgium to terminate discriminatory taxation of inbound dividends

13 August 2006

Treaty between Czech Republic and New Zealand– negotiations concluded

11 July 2006