Taxation & Accounting

EFAMA discusses all relevant tax topics with importance to the European asset management industry, such as Tax transparency packages or EU FTT, OECD topics including several actions inserted in the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, and all kinds of national developments in case they have an impact on regulated EU investment funds. The focus lays on mainstream funds but we may discuss alternative investment fund tax-related issues, if they are of broad relevance.

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Policy Position

Tax ＆ Accounting

27 August 2021

Consultation on the use of shell entities and arrangements for tax purposes

The Commission is trying to understand how the EU legal framework could be improved to tackle the use of legal entities with no or minimum substance and no real economic activities, by taxpayers operating cross-border to reduce their tax liability.

Policy Position

Tax ＆ Accounting

Accounting

11 May 2021

EFAMA's reply to IASB's Request for Information on the Post-implementation Review (PIR) of IFRS 10, 11 and 12

EFAMA replied to IASB’s Request for Information on the Post-Implementation Review of IFRS 10, 11 and 12. We are delighted to see an investment entity within the funds industry being acknowledged and catered for in IFRS. The development of the consolidation standards was a very welcomed development in the asset management world.

Policy position

Tax ＆ Accounting

VAT

03 May 2021

VAT rules for financial and insurance services today and tomorrow

EFAMA commented on the current VAT rules for financial services and their functioning, as well as on possible changes to these rules, in a public consultation of the European Commission.

EFAMA's reply to IASB's Request for Information on the Post-implementation Review (PIR) of IFRS 10, 11 and 12

Press Release

Capital Markets Union

Competitiveness

EU Fund regulation

Management Companies

Statistics

Sustainable Finance

Tax ＆ Accounting

01 March 2021

European Statistics Q4 2020 | 2020 Trends | Inflows into UCITS and AIFs bring European fund assets to an all-time high

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has today published its Investment Fund Industry Fact Sheet for Q4 of 2020, together with an overview of the full year.

The main developments through the quarter are as follows:

Press Release

Capital Markets Union

Competitiveness

Data

EU Fund regulation

Statistics

Stewardship

Sustainable Finance

Tax ＆ Accounting

22 February 2021

Monthly Statistics December 2020 | UCITS and AIF ended 2020 with record net sales in December

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has published its Investment Fund Industry Fact Sheet for December together with an overview of the net sales data for UCITS and AIFs in 2020.

Thomas Tilley, Senior Economist, commented on the December figures: “Net sales of UCITS and AIFs surged to an absolute record in December 2020, as investor confidence in a successful exit from the Covid-19 crisis continued to strengthen.”

The main developments in December are as follows: