46. Notes that resource rents should always be seen as an intermediary means to increase domestic revenue; points out that success in taxation of resources often brings advances in direct taxes, such as corporate income taxes, and non-tax revenues, such as royalty fees;

46. Notes that resource rents should always be seen as an intermediary means to increase domestic revenue; points out that success in taxation of resources often brings advances in direct taxes, such as corporate income taxes, and non-tax revenues, such as royalty fees;

‘direct taxes’ means taxes on wages, profits, interests, rents, royalties, and all other forms of income, and taxes on the ownership of real property,

It also recommends that taxation of the use of company cars (e.g. when people pay income tax on the use of a company car given in lieu of remuneration) should also include a clear and strong incentive to use more CO efficient cars.

Under the terms of Article 6 of the German law on tax relations with foreign countries, individual taxpayers who have been subject to unlimited income tax liability in Germany for a period of at least ten years and who have held a direct or indirect participation in a German limited company of at least one percent during the last five years, are subject to German income tax on their unrealised capital gains if they leave the country.

Where a company of a Member State, or a permanent establishment situated in that Member State of a company of a Member State, receives interest or royalties from an associated company of Greece or Portugal, or receives royalties from an associated company of Spain, or receives interest or royalties from a permanent establishment situated in Greece or Portugal of an associated company of a Member State, or receives royalties from a permanent establishment situated in Spain of an associated company of a Member State, the first Member State will allow an amount equal to the tax paid in Greece, Spain or Portugal on that income as a deduction ...[+++] from the tax on the income of the company or permanent establishment which received that income.