Greece Tax News

European Commission requests Belgium to terminate discriminatory taxation of inbound dividends

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

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

13 August 2006

Protocol between Greece and the Netherlands ratified in Greece

13 August 2006

Netherlands court holds Netherlands-Greece treaty does not require effective taxation for residence

9 April 2006

Details of the protocol between the Netherlands and Greece to the income and capital tax treaty of 16 July 1981, signed on 18 January 2006, have become available.

16 March 2006

Treaty between Belgium and Greece enters into force

16 March 2006

The first-time income and capital tax treaty between Greece and Mexico signed on 13 April 2004, entered into force on 7 December 2005. The treaty generally applies from 1 January 2006.

19 February 2006

On 18 January 2006 the Netherlands and Greece signed a protocol to their tax treaty on income and capital of 16 July 1981. Further details are not yet available.

19 February 2006

The first-time income and capital tax treaty between Greece-Mexico, signed on 13 April 2004, has been ratified in Greece by way of Law 3406/2005 and published in the Official Gazette of 25 October 2005, Volume A, No. 265. Further details of the treaty will be reported subsequently.

6 December 2005

Greece ratified the new Greece-Belgium income tax treaty, signed on 25 May 2004, by way of Law 3407/2005 and published in the Official Gazette of 25 October 2005, Volume A, No. 266. The new treaty will generally replace the Greece-Belgium income tax treaty of 24 May 1968.

6 December 2005

The first-time income tax treaty between Greece and China, signed on 3 June 2002, entered into force on 11 November 2005. The treaty generally applies from 1 January 2006.

6 December 2005

Decision issued on procedure for pre-approval of royalties and management fees payable to foreign companies

21 September 2005

Belgium ratified the new Belgium-Greece income tax treaty, signed on 25 May 2004, on 14 July 2005. The new treaty will generally replace the Belgium-Greece income tax treaty of 24 May 1968.

3 August 2005

The first-time income tax treaty between Greece and Ireland and the related protocol, signed on 24 November 2003, entered into force on 29 December 2004. The new treaty generally applies from 1 January 2005.

17 March 2005