Digital assets and tax challenges

Watch our webinar on demand to hear from Henrik Paulander, Head of Sector for administrative cooperation in direct taxation at European Commission and a panel of Simmons & Simmons tax experts discussed the tax challenges brought by the increasing adoption of digital assets, including:

• Developments on taxation in the UK and EU27 and in respect of funds investing in digital assets, and current tax authority areas of focus.
• Background to DAC8: taxation and tax administration in EU Member States. The crypto market and tax relevance.
• Relation to other initiatives on crypto-assets: OECD CARF, MiCA Regulation and Transfer of Funds Regulation.
• The structure of the crypto part of DAC8 and the obligations on crypto-asset service providers.

Guest speaker

Henrik Paulander is Head of Sector for administrative cooperation in direct taxation, DG TAXUD; Juris kandidat (Stockholm); D.E.S.S. (Université Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne); Formerly worked at the Swedish Ministry of Finance, the Swedish Parliament and the EU Court of Justice.