Description
Liza Lovdahl Gormsen explores whether the EC's recent rulings in relation to Member States' advanced pricing arrangements reflect a genuine problem of illegal State aid or whether the EC is attempting to use State aid rules to harmonise national tax systems. The author examines this issue through relevant case law, comparing the EC's actions with OECD guidance and US practices, assessing what is legitimate in terms of the EC's actions and competences. Through the lens of State aid and tax rulings, the author addresses the wider constitutional question of how to reconcile national interests with the move towards European harmonisation; does the answer lie in more integration, or less?
This book will be of great interest to academics researching the relationship between the EC and Member States in regards to taxation, State aid and authority over direct taxation. Practising lawyers working in the field of State aid and tax will also find this to be a useful resource as it clearly outlines relevant case law and interprets the resulting decisions.
About the Author
Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, Director of the Competition Law Forum and Senior Research Fellow in Competition Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, UK
Reviews
'A powerful critique of the European Commission's tax State aid investigations. The book is particularly valuable for tax lawyers, by setting the tax State aid cases in the broader context of the Commission's gradual push towards ''creeping competences''.'
--Dominic Robertson, Slaughter and May, UK
'EU State aid law, formerly of interest mostly to competition lawyers, has, in the last few years, intruded into the world of international taxation, in particular by its effects on multinational group companies through a series of high-profile investigations by the European Commission. In a detailed, forensic analysis, Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen has produced an excellent critical examination of this interaction of State aid and taxation. This book is highly recommended, in particular for tax specialists seeking to understand this fast-developing subject.'
--Conor Quigley QC, Serle Court, London, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781788972086
Author Liza Lovdahl Gormsen
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd