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Tax Stories: From Ancient Rome to 19th Century England
We continue our exploration of tax evolution in F.H.M. Grapperhaus’s wonderful book on the history of taxation, Taxes Through the Ages. Contents: The reform that destroyed Ancient Rome We are more equal! Magna Carta Fight or pay Capital tax But how to determine the value of property? The emergence of income tax What is profit […]
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Tax Stories Podcast – Episode 94 – Philippos Aristotelous – on educating lawyers
Philippos Aristotelous is a lawyer who until 2018 was leading the tax practice in the largest law firm in Cyprus. Then he switched to become a law firm management and leadership consultant and wrote a book about happiness. Watch the video recording here. In this episode we discussed: regrets of leaving the legal practice; a look from […]
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Tax Stories: Comparison of Baltic salary taxes
As an example, I took a gross salary of EUR 3,000 to put together a table showing what the Baltic States’ payroll taxation looks like after Lithuania’s 2026 tax reform. Read the full story by tax expert Jānis Taukačs here.
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Tax Stories: Are tax disputes only for the wealthy?
The EU Court of Justice ruled that the criteria for suspension of enforcement in BUL were unlawful. This may be important for Latvian courts to apply it more widely, and to limit the SRS’s appetite. Contents: What happened? Questions to the EU Court of Justice Is the case admissible before the ECJ? ECJ: both criteria […]
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Tax Stories: The Estonian Tax and Customs Board requested information from Wolt. Was this legal?
In Estonia, the administration requested information from Wolt about deliveries to an apartment, thereby attempting to prove that the apartment owner was receiving undeclared rental income. Contents: Right to privacy How? Perhaps the SRS could have refrained from providing this information to the landlord? From the outset, the taxpayer himself must be asked In the […]