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The past week was a busy one for Canada’s Department of Finance (“Finance”). On November 3, 2022, Finance released its 2022 Fall Economic Statement (the “Fall Economic Statement”) and...

This article reviews the most consequential issues faced by parties to M&A transactions in the tech sector in United Arab Emirates, including common deal structures, agreement terms and financing.

<p><span>1. Multiple compounding crises have severely darkened the global economic outlook and development prospects. Global growth is slowing, and poverty, hunger, water scarcity, cost of living pressures and food and energy insecurity have increased alarmingly, deepening the existing challenges in the global economy as well as exacerbating fragilities in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (FCS). Persistently high inflation and spikes in food and energy prices, exacerbated by the ...

The EU tax blacklist now includes three more countries, while Canada’s corporate tax gap has widened and Shell’s CEO has warned of a potential tax on energy firms.

The indicators point in one direction: an increase in tax controversy, as authorities’ resources are ploughed into increased scrutiny. Luis Coronado of EY explains why, and suggests what tactics businesses should be adopting.

Luis Coronado and Matt Andrew of EY unpick the OECD’s consultation documents related to tax certainty under pillar one and find that there are many unresolved issues in terms of tax dispute resolution.

Luis Coronado and Matt Andrew of EY say policymakers still have many issues to resolve as debates continue over the technical and implementation-related elements of pillars one and two.

Belema Obuoforibo, director at non-profit IBFD, has criticised the policy design of the OECD’s two-pillar solution at an IFA panel.

Costa Rica has taken further steps to combat harmful tax practices, the OECD has said in its latest report from the Forum of Harmful Tax Practices (FHTP).

As discussed in our alert earlier this week, the recently announced proposed reconciliation package—the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, H.R. 5376 (the "Bill")—would impose a new 15% minimum...