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Torqx Capital Partners acquires majority of the shares of VHE Industrial automation
Congratulations to Torqx Capital Partners for acquiring the majority of the shares of VHE Industrial automation in partnership with current shareholders Joop Essing and Marc van Happen. VHE Industrial automation…

The G7 Finance Ministers Agree Historic Global Tax Agreement
According to the press release dated June 5, 2021, the G7 finance ministers reached agreement on a global coordinated tax reform. The global tax reform is closely related to the…

European Commission Communication on Business Taxation for the 21st century
On 18 May 2021, the European Commission (“EC”) published the long-awaited Communication on Business Taxation for the 21st Century (the “Communication”). The Communication provides a roadmap with short- and long-term…

President Biden’s “Made in America Tax Plan” and proposed changes to US tax law for multinationals
In the recent Made in America Tax Plan, the Biden administration proposes fundamental reforms to the US tax code. At the same time, a surprising shift in stance on the…

Atlas Fiscalisten in het Advocatenblad
Hoe maakt Atlas Fiscalisten het verschil? Het Advocatenblad interviewde onze collega’s Roelof Gerritsen, Masoumeh Kangarani, Dennis Ruzius, Yves Cattel en Christiaan Herman de Groot. Lees hier waarom onze manier van werken…

International Lessons from Coca-Cola
Our TP experts Taco Wiertsema and Anne Verhagen wrote the article “International Lessons from Coca-Cola” for Tax Notes. The article provides for a critical analysis of the U.S. Tax-Court’s recent…

The tax and social security impact of COVID-19 on cross-border activities
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments to take unprecedented measures such as travel restrictions and the implementation of strict quarantine requirements. As a result of these measures, some cross-border…

Proposal to Disallow Unilateral Downward Transfer Pricing Adjustments
Yesterday, the Dutch Ministry of Finance kicked-off an internet consultation on a draft proposal (the “Draft Bill”) to amend the Dutch codification of the arm’s length principle. The Draft Bill…

Services provided by datacenters are not services relating to real property
For VAT purposes, services supplied by datacenters should not qualify as services related to real property. For an overview of the recent developments relating to the vat qualification of services…

The CJEU rules against the Swedish interest deduction limitation rules
Last month, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a preliminary ruling on the compatibility of a Swedish interest deduction limitation rule in the Lexel case (c-485/19).…

ATAD2 and the Dutch Documentation Requirement
The Anti-Tax-Avoidance-Directive II (“ATAD2”) has been implemented in the Dutch legislation with effect from 1 January 2020. The ATAD2 provisions, which aim to neutralize certain tax effects of hybrid mismatches,…

Chile and the Netherlands sign a double tax treaty
On 25 January 2021, Chile and the Netherlands signed a double tax treaty (DTT). This is a welcome addition to the Dutch tax treaty network facilitating Dutch companies with doing…

Comments Atlas Tax Lawyers on the OECD Public Consultation Document regarding BEPS Action 14
Last week Atlas Tax Lawyers provided its comments on the OECD Consultation Document (the “Consultation Document”) regarding BEPS Action 14.

Atlas Tax Lawyers advised Cellnex Telecom S.A. and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners on the merger of Deutsche Telekom’s tower business in the Netherlands with Cellnex Netherlands and the funding of a new Digital Infrastructure Vehicle
Atlas Tax Lawyers advised Cellnex Telecom S.A. and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners on the merger of Deutsche Telekom’s tower business in the Netherlands with Cellnex Netherlands and the funding of a new Digital Infrastructure Vehicle

Atlas welcomes Johan Visser to the partner team
With great pleasure we announce the appointment of Johan Visser as partner as of January 1st 2021. He has been part of the firm since 2018 and is specialized in…