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… says CJEU On 8th November, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in joined cases C-885/19 and C-898/19 P, also more popularly known as the Fiat Luxembourg case. The case first emerged in 2012, when Luxembourg tax authorities offered a tax relief of €30 million to Fiat, part of the Fiat/Chrysler group. The contested calculation methodology used to ascertain the taxable income, was subsequently subject to Commission’s formal investigations … of the Transfer Pricing Agreement for the Fiat Chrysler Finance Europe (formerly, Fiat Finance and Trade) failed to take account of the well- https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/faculties/faculty-law/education/moot-courts-and-clinics/clinical-education/innovator%E2%80%99s https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/live-nation-ticketmaster-investigation-taylor-swift.html … here. German Maureau, 3 October 2022, available here. Image source: Dior, available here. 4.2 Musk’s Trademark-like Twitter Blues! On 27th October, Elon Musk finally completed the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. Twitter, like Facebook and other online social networking platforms, offers its basic services for free. The key business model for Twitter is advertisement-based revenue model (see News Item 1.3 supra on how such a business model works in practice). Following Twitter’s acquisition, …