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  • 4 - Tax Obstacles to the Cross-Border Movement of Companies: Direct Investment

  • Christiana H. J. I. Panayi, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book:
    European Union Corporate Tax Law
    Published online:
    28 May 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021, pp 134-192

  • Summary

    In Chapter 4, some of the tax obstacles arising in the cross-border movement of companies were examined, the emphasis being firstly on direct investment. It was reiterated that EU law does not impose any immediate obligations on Member States on how to structure their corporate tax systems in terms of rates, taxable base, depreciation and so on. What EU law does is to prevent Member States from imposing rules that hinder a domestic company from carrying on its business in another Member State (home State obstacles), or rules that hinder a non-resident company from carrying on its business in a similar way to domestic companies (host State obstacles). As far as companies were concerned, issues such as expenses in foreign holdings and cross-border loss relief were considered. As far as permanent establishments are concerned, apart from different treatment compared to subsidiaries, issues such as loss relief, notional expenses, attribution of profits were examined.