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UK Government Scraps Controversial Proposals to Tackle Legal but Harmful Content Online The UK government has confirmed that it is abandoning controversial provisions in its Online Safety Bill to make tech firms take down legal but harmful material accessed by adults. Protections for children remain unchanged, and other new protections for...
Carried-Interest Income earned by Spanish Tax Residents: Beware! You may qualify for a 50% Income Tax Rebate! On 1 December 2022, the new so-called “Start-up Law” was passed by the Spanish Parliament. The Law aims to foster the start-up ecosystem in Spain establishing a specific regulatory framework that supports the creation and growth of start-ups. Additional...
Fundraising during rockier times – key takeaways During a recent panel session moderated by Slaughter and May for late-stage UK start-ups, titled ‘Fundraising during rockier times’, we came away feeling a bit more positive about the ‘rockier times’ than we might have been before. If you are a tech...
New double taxation agreement between the UK and Brazil In September 2022, Brazil and the UK announced a first round of negotiations for a double taxation agreement (DTA) following several years of discussions on technical and policy issues. It appears that the formal negotiations progressed well, given that a...
CRR amendments under the 'Daisy Chain' Regulation - The treatment of third country subsidiaries' surpluses for resolution purposes Regulation (EU) 2022/2036 came into force on 14 November 2022 and makes targeted amendments to the Capital Requirements Regulation (575/2013/EU) (CRR) and consequential amendments to the Banking Recovery and Resolution Directive (2014/59/EU) (BRRD) to...
EU expands scope of its cyber rules as NIS 2 agreed The EU has agreed changes to its cybersecurity rules. On 22 November 2022, the “NIS 2 Directive” received approval from the European Parliament. Yesterday, the text was also adopted by the Council of the EU, clearing the path for this to become law. What...
New taxes on non-Spanish-tax-resident individuals who indirectly hold Spanish real estate The Spanish Government recently published a proposal to tax non-Spanish-tax-resident individuals who hold Spanish real estate through one or multiple non-Spanish-resident entities under Spain’s Net Wealth Tax (NWT). The proposal also calls for a...
ICO warns immature biometric technologies could discriminate, and organisations may be investigated The ICO has warned organisations to carefully assess the risks if considering using emotion analysis technologies as they will be investigated if they fail to act responsibly, posing risks to vulnerable people, or if they fail to meet ICO expectations....
The proof is in the (crypto) pudding: is Proof of Reserves a solution to crypto’s trust problem? In any normal week, reports that nearly half a billion dollars in cryptoassets had been stolen from a cryptocurrency exchange would be major news. Unfortunately for FTX, which has been having anything but a normal week, the reported hack is barely a...
Interpreting tax treaties - Dutch Supreme Court clarifies relevance of later OECD commentaries In a previous post, Maarten van der Weijden indicated that a decision by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal on 22 December 2020 set the stage for a principled decision by the Dutch Supreme Court on how to deal with changes to provisions of the OECD model tax...