Disruption Readiness: KPMG Tax Analysis and Insights
In an everchanging tax landscape, it is important for businesses everywhere to stay updated on the latest tax developments with timely analysis and insights.
Pillar Two of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) two-pillar approach to modernizing the global tax system may result in the need to address global minimum tax requirements as early as 2023.
The potential impact of Pillar Two rules is significant:
- Thousands of multinational groups with global revenue of EUR 750 million or more would be subject to a global minimum tax of 15 percent in the jurisdictions in which they operate.
- These groups would face significant compliance requirements to demonstrate jurisdictional effective tax rates—calculated under complicated rules with multiple data sources needed—are at 15 percent or above.
- Parent companies headquartered in OECD Inclusive Framework (IF) countries would be obligated to calculate and pay a top-up tax for offshore jurisdictions where their effective tax rate is below 15 percent. Companies headquartered outside IF countries may also face compliance requirement if they are operating in IF countries.
- Company effective tax rates may garner media attention.
There are actions company tax teams can be taking now to prepare. Review our Pillar Two Checklist to get started or to help determine where gaps may exist in tax department efforts to be prepared for the possible Pillar Two changes.
August 2022
Pillar Two Checklist |
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| 1 | Monitor country reactions and participate in local policy/guidance and development
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Determine which entities in the group structure are in-scope of the rules |
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Perform impact assessment to determine whether a top-up tax obligation will arise and what elections to make |
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Manage internal and external stakeholders, including market disclosure obligations |
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Assess resource needs to determine the impact and ongoing compliance needs and set up a project team |
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Assess new complex data needs and systems changes needed for reporting |
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Review governance controls to help manage the risks associated with complex rules |
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Determine if material financial statement impacts and disclosures are needed |
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Review restructuring, value chain, IP location, and financing |
