The Fund Reporting Cloud (R) has made tax reporting less complex, but comparing the effective tax treatment of investment funds and their investors in an international environment is still an ambitious task. Against this background, this study examines the tax consequences at fund, asset, and investor level. In geographical terms our comparison covers eleven European countries, the USA, and Japan. Our analysis of the relevant tax provisions, which is of a primarily qualitative nature, is complemented by a quantitative comparison of the tax burden for a model investor investing assets nationally in the form of a collective investment. It will be of interest both for investors seeking tax advantages and for governments to check whether there is a need for tax reforms. It also ties in perfectly with the current evaluations at OECD level in the context of TRACE.

Die Autoren arbeiten die verfahrensrechtlichen Probleme auf, die sich in den letzten Jahren fur den Bereich der Verrechnungspreise ergeben haben. Dazu analysieren sie aus empirischer und normativer Perspektive, welche praktische Relevanz die Dokumentationspflichten haben, wo sich welche Rechtsunsicherheiten im Verfahrensrecht der Verrechnungspreise ergeben, wie gewichtig sie sind, wie sie sich reduzieren lassen und wie der Zugang zu behoerdlichem, gerichtlichem und zwischenstaatlichem Rechtsschutz verbreitert werden kann.

The European Commission envisages putting forward a proposal for a tax reform that would allow improving the efficiency and simplicity of the corporate income tax systems. This report assesses the impact of a Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) on the size of the corporate tax bases of EU companies. The results of the report shall help to evaluate the economic consequences of the introduction of a harmonised set of tax accounting rules. The estimates are based on the European Tax Analyzer with data from the year 2006 and apply options specified by the Commission 's Steering Group.