Übersetzung für "Advise on tax planning " (Englisch → Deutsch) :

Any company or professional that designs or promotes a tax planning arrangement which has a cross-border element and contains any of the hallmarks set out in the Directive will be covered. This includes lawyers, accountants, tax and financial advisers, banks and consultants.

The European Commission has today launched a public consultation to gather feedback on the way forward for EU action on advisers and intermediaries who facilitate tax evasion and tax avoidance.

Recent revelations have highlighted how certain intermediaries, such as tax advisers, helped their clients to shift profits offshore for the purposes of avoiding tax.

45. Notes also the efforts made through the creation of the Platform for Tax Good Governance, which brings various stakeholders around the same table with the aim of creating consensus around the issue of tax avoidance, in particular in an international context, and the Joint Transfer Pricing Forum, which issues a number of guidelines on the technical issues surrounding transfer pricing; stresses that, to date, these bodies have contributed to making limited corrections to the corporate tax framework; regrets that the guidelines issued by the Joint Transfer Pricing Forum so far have not sufficiently tackled the issue of tax avoidance; ...[+++] deplores the fact that the composition of the Joint Transfer Pricing Forum, despite a recent update of its membership, is still unbalanced; objects, moreover, to the fact that tax experts contribute to the work on guidelines on transfer pricing while, at the same time, they may be advising their clients on aggressive tax planning strategies based on transfer pricing, and thus be in a position of conflict of interest;

45. Notes also the efforts made through the creation of the Platform for Tax Good Governance, which brings various stakeholders around the same table with the aim of creating consensus around the issue of tax avoidance, in particular in an international context, and the Joint Transfer Pricing Forum, which issues a number of guidelines on the technical issues surrounding transfer pricing; stresses that, to date, these bodies have contributed to making limited corrections to the corporate tax framework; regrets that the guidelines issued by the Joint Transfer Pricing Forum so far have not sufficiently tackled the issue of tax avoidance; ...[+++] deplores the fact that the composition of the Joint Transfer Pricing Forum, despite a recent update of its membership, is still unbalanced; objects, moreover, to the fact that tax experts contribute to the work on guidelines on transfer pricing while, at the same time, they may be advising their clients on aggressive tax planning strategies based on transfer pricing, and thus be in a position of conflict of interest;

51. Calls on the Commission to prepare and promote a Code of Conduct for auditors and advisers; calls on auditing firms to alert national tax authorities to any signs of aggressive tax planning of the audited company;