Mazars’ London Tax Conference to focus on BEPS and digitalisation

This year’s Mazars International Tax Conference will be exploring how the international business landscape is being shaped by the tax changes resulting from base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS), and the OECD’s and the EU’s work on the taxation of the digital economy, among others.

The conference will be held in London on October 4, in collaboration with King’s College London.

Mazars Malta tax partner Paul Giglio explained the relevance of BEPS and the taxation of the digital economy as the focus of the conference.

“We have been witnessing rapid changes in the international tax system as a result of actions by governments to tackle the implications of BEPS, as well as the perceived attempts by multinationals at international tax structuring. These measures are being driven primarily within the framework of the OECD/G20 BEPS project, which aims at creating a single set of consensus-based international tax rules to protect the taxable base, while offering increased certainty and predictability to taxpayers.

“Meanwhile, the same framework also sets an agreed direction of work on digitalisation and the international tax rules through to 2020. It is relevant to note how...