This publication is designed to help taxpayers everywhere create—and justify—their tax plans that can deal with the increased scrutiny by tax authorities.

PwC is a leading provider of international tax services to companies operating cross border. The international tax services network provides access to recent tax news and advice on holding company structures; cross border financing and treasury solutions; controlled foreign company planning; profit repatriation; loss utilisation; inbound and outbound structuring; managing intellectual property; tax efficient supply chain and shared services; and European, Asian, and Latin American tax law.

Organised in a way that systematically mirrors the actual life cycle of IP rights, Mastering the intellectual property life cycle offers compelling insights from tax and legal points of view, as well as an accounting perspective.

EU tax news is a free bi-monthly newsletter with summaries of relevant community law news and EU policy developments in the field of direct taxation.

The EU direct tax newsalerts are issued on an ad hoc basis to provide our clients and other interested parties with the very latest news on the most important European Court of Justice (ECJ) decisions and national developments in Europe in the field of direct taxation.

This publication outlines European pension fund opportunities for filing refund requests for withholding taxes levied on their foreign investments in light of the different treatment of foreign and domestic pension funds in a number of the European Union’s member states in breach of the European Commission Treaty.

PricewaterhouseCoopers analysed to what extent investment funds that have UCITS status and that are organised as corporate funds face tax discrimination when conducting business across Europe. The publication also explains how companies can claim a refund.

This paper presents the EBIT business working group of tax directors of 20+ leading European-based companies on direct tax in Europe, which works through constructive and fact-based dialogue with the European Commission, the OECD and national finance ministries, and which is facilitated by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which acts as its secretariat.