12/2/2025 5:53:48 PM Autumn Budget 2025: new stamp duty reserve tax UK listing relief By Alison Dickie Samuel Withnall The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has delivered the Autumn Budget 2025. After much press speculation on what would be...
8/28/2025 11:51:55 AM German real estate transfer tax: Federal Tax Court casts doubt on potential double tax charge in M&A transactions By David Beutel Philipp Redeker Moritz Lehmann German real estate transfer tax (Grunderwerbsteuer; RETT) is a significant cost factor in M&A transactions involving the direct or...
5/9/2025 2:04:46 PM Modernising UK stamp taxes on shares: finishing line (almost) in sight? By Emily Szasz Alison Dickie How long does it take to modernise an antiquated stamp taxes on shares regime dating back to 1891? Sounds like the opener for a (bad)...
1/26/2024 9:20:14 AM German taxation of business relationships with Russia – recent developments and outlook for 2024 By Christian Sistermann Moritz Lehmann As expected, Russia has now officially become a “non-cooperative jurisdiction” for the purposes of the German Tax Haven Defence Act...
11/24/2023 7:50:00 AM German Federal Parliament approved transitional rule to allow for continued applicability of RETT exemption rules relevant for partnerships By Dr. Tanja Walter-Yadegardjam Martin Schiessl Alina Paschke On 17 November 2023, the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) approved the Growth Opportunities Act (Wachstumschancengesetz) which...
11/7/2023 11:54:46 AM German Real Estate Transfer Tax – the uncertainty arising from new guidance on the attribution of real estate assets in shareholding structures By Martin Schiessl Dr. Tanja Walter-Yadegardjam Sebastian Jung Christian Schmidt Alina Paschke +2 more... Show less The Finance Ministries of the Federal States have recently released harmonised decrees (dated 16 October 2023) providing guidance on the...
9/28/2023 11:00:07 AM New tax ruling brings positive news for the taxation of carried interest in Spain By Javier Sánchez Ballesteros Since our previous post Spanish taxation of carried interest: what’s new for the private equity sector?, the Spanish General Tax...
9/21/2023 4:04:47 PM Higher rate UK stamp tax charge on entry of securities to clearance services/depositary receipt systems: status quo maintained? By Paul Davison Alison Dickie The UK tax authority, HMRC, recently published draft legislation that aims to ensure that the sunset provisions in the Retained EU Law...
7/20/2023 10:08:08 AM What you need to know now about the impact of the OECD's global minimum tax on M&A transactions By Peter Clements Bob van Kasteren Katharina Kubik Joe Soltis Alison Dickie +2 more... Show less Following international agreement on the key components of the OECD’s Pillar 2 proposal to introduce a global minimum tax, attention has...
7/6/2023 2:12:15 PM German Real Estate Transfer Tax and Investment Funds By Martin Schiessl Dr. Sebastian Röger Discussion Draft for a German RETT Reform: contractual investment funds, their managers and fund investors need to watch out Discussion...
3/29/2023 9:40:51 PM EU Tax Blacklist update: German taxpayers with business relationships with Russian counterparties expected to face stronger headwinds By Christian Sistermann Moritz Lehmann On 14 February 2023, the Council of the EU (the Council) voted to add Russia to the main EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax...
1/18/2023 5:48:06 PM Developments in Spanish tax exemptions for sovereign investors: impact for M&A deals and tax disputes By Álvaro Fernández Silvia Paternain Bosco Montejo The domestic Spanish tax code does not, of itself, provide for any specific exemptions or favourable regimes for foreign sovereign...
12/5/2022 5:20:02 PM Spanish taxation of carried interest: what’s next for the private equity sector? By Javier Sánchez Ballesteros Private equity managers generally co-invest in the managed fund alongside fund investors. They also hold carried interest, which gives...
12/2/2022 5:58:46 PM German VAT group rules – do the recent decisions of the European tax court mark the end of non-VATable intra-group supplies? By Dr. Tanja Walter-Yadegardjam Jan Brinkmann The long-awaited judgements of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on fundamental questions of the German rules for fiscal unities (i.e....
6/10/2022 12:47:27 PM Double tax treaties: the French supreme court rules that beneficial ownership can be used affirmatively by taxpayers and the French tax authorities By Cyril Valentin Juliette Brasart Tazio Jaegle In this blog, we examine the recent, and helpful, Planet case (20 May 2022, #444451, Société Planet; concl. C. Guibé), in which the...
6/9/2022 1:18:31 PM Does the proposed UK corporate re-domiciliation regime measure up? By Alison Dickie The UK government is planning to introduce a UK corporate re-domiciliation regime that would allow a non-UK incorporated company to...