After the lecture the students will have learned about the key aspects and effects of tax planning in an international context, will have gotten familiar with the notions of regulatory competition, harmful tax competition and tay coordination and with the various ways in which a coordinated answer to aggressive tax planning can be devised at the level of international or supranational organizations.
Syllabus
Title
5677 BEPS (Base Erosion Profit Shifting) and other OECD and EU Initiatives against Aggressive Tax Planning
Instructors
Assoz.Prof PD Dr. Rita Szudoczky
Type
FS
Weekly hours
2
Language of instruction
Englisch
Registration
02/22/19 to 02/24/19
Registration via LPIS
Registration via LPIS
Notes to the course
Subject(s) Master Programs
The course deals with the OECD’s work aimed at countering aggressive tax planningand Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) activities by multinational enterprises. It discusses the preludes to the OECD/G20 BEPS project, i.e. therise of tax planning schemes through which multinational enterprises try toreduce their tax burden by making use of loopholes in the international taxation framework. We will see examples of such tax planning schemes and examine the OECD’s response to it. In particular, we will discuss the recommendations made by the OECD in the framework of the BEPS project with the aim of reducingthe possibilities for aggressive tax planning. We will also discuss parallel efforts within the European Union to fight aggressive tax planning and tax avoidance.
Prerequisites to pass the course:
- Preparation for classes, reading the compulsory materials prior to classes (10% of the final grade)
- Active participation, including a group presentation (15% of the final grade)
- Passing a written exam (75% of the final grade)
The Seminar requires basic knowledge of:
• company taxation in an international context
• the OECD Model Tax Convention and
• EU direct tax law
Last edited: 2018-11-22
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