In recent years, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has invalidated many income tax law provisions of EU member states as violating the guarantees of the European constitutional treaties of freedom of movement for goods, services, persons, and capital. These decisions have not, however, been...

The introduction of a formulaically apportioned common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) could represent a milestone in international taxation. No agreement has yet been reached, however. In contrast, Germany already has a long-standing system that apportions corporate taxes by splitting...

This paper seeks to contribute to the current debate on EU-wide corporate taxation, steered by the impending Proposal by the European Commission on a new framework for the taxation of income of businesses in Europe. The objective of this paper is to verify whether the inclusion of intangible...

Albania journey towards EU membership is governed by the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA), signed on June 12th, 2006. This article rises above Albania's obligations for the alignment of its tax legislation with EU standards and acquis, clearly defined in Title VI of the SAA. Unlike...

The essay introduces the main dilemmas faced by decision makers in the European Union (EU) regarding the initiation of a Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) in the EU. It introduces the policy considerations and conflict of interests among EU Members, which prevented the initiation of a CCTB in the...

This paper examines the relationship between the voting behaviour of European Parliament members on the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) proposal and economic characteristics of their respective countries. We are concerned about the political and economy factors behind policy and...

This paper explores how the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) Directive Proposal under the EU law should be designed to allocate cross-border income earned from MNE taxpayers of the transportation industry.The transportation activity is mobile in nature, and thus creates the...

After intensive and extensive preparation, the European Commission released the long-awaited proposal for a Council Directive on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) on March 16, 2011. In the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy, major objectives of the proposed CCCTB are the...

The European Commission favours the introduction of a consolidated corporate tax base to overcome the distortions arising from the existing system of separate accounting. The blueprints for consolidation are simulated with the applied general equilibrium model CORTAX. We show that the benefits...