The Pit of Permanent Establishment – Part 1

When technology businesses have exhausted the market in the UK, the next logical step is to start exporting services. Exporting to EEA countries has its own challenges, including differences of language and sometimes also of culture, but exporting beyond the European Single Market may bring some more interesting additional legal and fiscal challenges, including the spectre of “permanent establishment”. A …

European Commission 2016 Work Programme

I had a read yesterday through the European Commission work programme for 2016, optimistically subtitled “No time for business as usual”. It seems that creating a connected Digital Single Market in the European Union will generate up to €250 billion of additional growth for the European Single Market (hooray), but sadly even the proposals for achieving this will not materialize …