Denmark Tax News

ECJ: Advocate General finds Dutch withholding tax on outbound dividends incompatible with EC free movement of capital – details

2 July 2007

Corporate income tax reform adopted

2 July 2007

Treaty between Denmark and Austria signed

2 July 2007

ECJ: Advocate General holds German switch-over provision for low-taxed passive income of foreign PEs incompatible with EC Law – details

2 July 2007

ECJ: Swedish legislation on dividend tax relief in relations with third countries is compatible with EC law – details

2 July 2007

ECJ: German thin capitalization rules reclassifying interests paid to substantial shareholders in third States are not incompatible with EC law

2 July 2007

ECJ: Previous Austrian rules discriminating dividends received from third countries are compatible with free movement of capital under grandfathering clause – details

2 July 2007

International tax conference on CCCTB held in Berlin

18 June 2007

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

18 June 2007

Revised bill amending the Corporate Income Tax Act published

28 May 2007

Revised Commentary on Article 7 of OECD Model released

28 May 2007

Memorandum of understanding concluded between Denmark and Switzerland

28 May 2007

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

28 April 2007

Final Report on Improving the Resolution of Tax Treaty Disputes

24 March 2007

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

24 March 2007

Major amendments to Danish tax laws announced

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

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

24 February 2007

Report on Attribution of Profits to PEs released

24 February 2007

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

24 February 2007

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

15 January 2007

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

15 January 2007

Protocol to treaty between Denmark and US

17 December 2006

Minister of Taxation's policy statement for 2006/07

17 December 2006

European Commission requests Belgium to terminate discriminatory taxation of inbound dividends

13 August 2006

US Senate may hold hearings on new Denmark, Finland, and Germany protocols

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

13 August 2006

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

13 August 2006