Dutch Government Reconsidering Tax Plan after Unilever Cancels Headquarter Restructuring Plans

The Dutch government has decided to reconsider its recently issued Tax Plan ({News-2018-09-19/P/4-previous coverage}), including the planned abolition of the dividend withholding tax from 2020. The decision follows a 5 October 2018 announcement from Unilever that it will not be going forward with its plan to move to a single headquarters in the Netherlands (currently has headquarters in both the Netherlands and the UK). Unilever is reportedly one of the main companies, along with Shell, that …