Making Tax Complexity Simpler at KPMG’s EMEA Tax Summit

AMSTERDAM, June 29, 2011 -

- 59 Percent of Summit Attendees Look for
More Consultation Between Tax Payers and Tax
Administration

Around the world the pace of change in tax policy, legislation
and regulation is complicating the business environment in which
tax professionals’ work. Commenting on these challenges, one-on-one
video interviews with KPMG firms’ tax professionals, available at
href="www.kpmg.com/taxviews">www.kpmg.com/taxviews
seek to cut through this complexity and deliver practical ideas and
approaches to help businesses address the key issues.

In Amsterdam today and yesterday, over 600 senior tax
professionals from over 40 countries met at KPMG’s Europe Middle
East and Asia (EMEA) Tax Summit to discuss the increasing
complexity and mounting challenges they are facing.

In a real-time poll, 59 percent of the tax professionals at the
Summit said that to minimize tax complexity, tax administrations
need to consult more with multinational tax directors to improve
processes and joint working.

One way proposed in the EU to improve process includes the
Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB). CCCTB is a system
of standardized rules for computing the tax base of a corporate
group which has subsidiaries and/or permanent establishments in the
EU. The CCCTB allows a group of companies to consolidate their
profits and losses across the EU. This consolidated figure is then
allocated by means of an apportionment formula to the relevant
Member States. The Member States apply their own national tax rates
to this allocation to calculate the tax liability.

When Summit tax professional were asked, as a corporate tax
payer, if they would like to see the CCCTB implemented 36 percent
had mixed views. Twenty-two percent agree and a further 18 percent
strongly agree. Twelve percent either disagree or strongly agree.
 The poll also found that 29 percent strongly agree and 30
percent agree that they do not believe that the CCCTB will be
implemented in any meaningful form before 2025. Twenty-seven
percent disagreed.

“Complexity is a fact of life but we can all get a little
smarter in how we deal with it,” says Wilbert Kannekens, KPMG’s
Head of International Corporate Tax. “To get through the complexity
companies need to have clearly articulated policies on their
attitudes towards tax, they need to engage more and cooperate with
authorities-and this goes both ways. At the end of the day they
need accurate and transparent processes and controls which the
stakeholders ultimately look at.”

For more information, and to view the one-on-one interviews,
please visit href="www.kpmg.com/taxviews">www.kpmg.com/taxviews

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