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Newsletter Energy & Consumption Tax

#1/2018
WTS Energy & Consumption Tax
Newsletter
Second law amending the Energy and Electricity Tax Act

Second law amending the Energy and Electricity Tax Act

The ordinance amending the Energy and Electricity Tax Implementing Ordinance was  published: important information about the resulting legal changes at the turn of the year 2018

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Global Expatriate Services

WTS Global Expatriate Services
Newsletter
Assignments to Europe 2017

Assignments to Europe 2017

Overview of tax, Social Security and immigrationrelated matters for assignments to and within Europe

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Global Mobility

#1/2021
WTS Global Mobility
Newsletter
Brief overview of recent or expected changes in the area of Global Mobility in selected EU and third countries
#2/2020
WTS Global Mobility
Newsletter
Brief overview of recent or expected changes in the area of Global Mobility in 17 selected countries
#1/2020
WTS Global Mobility
Newsletter
Brief overview of recent or expected changes in the area of Global Mobility in 11 selected countries
#1/2019
WTS Global Mobility
Newsletter
Brief overview of recent or expected changes in the area of Global Mobility in 9 selected countries

Brief overview of recent or expected changes in the area of Global Mobility in selected EU and third countries

  • Austria: Wage withholding tax for foreign employers abolished!
  • Bulgaria: COVID-19: what are the implications on employees and employers in Bulgaria in 2021?
  • China: Tax honeymoon for expatriates ending on 31 December 2021
  • Germany/France: Being prepared for the 2020 French and German tax return filing season
  • Germany II: New tax return filing obligation for non-residents in Germany
  • Hungary: Guidance to Social Security and Personal Income Taxation concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Italy: The Italian tax regime for “impatriates” – Recent amendments
  • Russian Federation: Migration and Personal Income tax updates 2021
  • Senegal: Shall a foreign employee, assigned to Senegal to perform a contract signed between its employer and a local company for less than 90 days, file personal income tax in Senegal?
  • Sweden: Sweden adopts the Economic Employer Concept and expands companies’ obligations to make tax deductions as of January 2021
  • The Czech Republic: Taxation of income from employment and entrepreneurship since 2021
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Brief overview of recent or expected changes in the area of Global Mobility in 17 selected countries

  • Austria: Home Office work in Austria and consequences due to Covid-19
  • Chile: COVID-19 crisis, forced permanency and PE
  • China: Does the coronavirus cause any impact on the IIT of individuals
  • stranded in China?
  • Costa Rica: Tax treatment for employees staying in Costa Rica
  • Czech Republic: The influence of anti-COVID measures on tax residence and
  • affiliation to social insurance regulations
  • Germany: Stay compliant when working from home
  • Hungary: Expat employees working from home
  • Italy: Issues related to working from home or remotely during the Covid crisis
  • Kenya: Virtual work – Tax considerations of the new normal
  • The Netherlands: Working from home due to the coronavirus: the Dutch tax impact
  • Poland: COVID-19 tax and social security guidelines still to come
  • Portugal: Working remotely from Portuguese home office due to the
  • pandemic and beyond
  • The Russian Federation: Stuck in Russia due to the Corona pandemic
  • Sweden: Swedish tax liability for individuals during COVID-19
  • Turkey: Working remotely from Turkey
  • Ukraine: Migration and taxation issues in times of COVID-19
  • Vietnam: Does having an employee in Vietnam create a permanent establishment?
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Brief overview of recent or expected changes in the area of Global Mobility in 11 selected countries

  • Austria: New wage withholding tax obligation in Austria as per 01/01/2020
  • Belgium: Belgians working in Luxembourg – 24-days’ tolerance mayincrease to 48 days
  • China: Announcements concerning the 2019 annual filing of individual income tax (IIT) and the coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic
  • Costa Rica: Salary Income Tax (SIT) and Social Security Charges (SSC)
  • France: Tax domicile in France of the corporate executives of French major companies
  • Germany: New flat-rate tax for Branch Travellers
  • Italy: Italy’s measures towards future: young people of excellence, sharing of parenthood, rise of smart working
  • The Netherlands: Workers posted to the Netherlands reporting obligation implemented
  • Poland: New tax exemption and new rules, if tax still has to be paid
  • Turkey: Recent Developments in Turkey
  • Ukraine: Major amendments introduced in 2020 – affecting individuals’ taxation
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Brief overview of recent or expected changes in the area of Global Mobility in 9 selected countries

  • Austria: Reporting and documentation obligations for employee secondments to Austria
  • Belgium: Changes in tax and social security obligations affecting Belgian companies for benefits granted by foreign affiliated companies
  • China: China’s new IIT law
  • France: New income tax collection system
  • EU-Member States: The new EU Posting of Workers Directive
  • EU-/EEA-Member States & Switzerland: Business Trips and A1 certificate of coverage
  • Netherlands: 30% ruling shortened to five years as of 1 January 2019
  • Sweden: The Economic Employer Concept to be implemented in Sweden
  • United Kingdom: Brexit update – Social Security implications for Global Mobility
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Newsletter Global VAT

#4/2020
WTS Value Added Tax
Newsletter
Recent or expected changes in VAT and GST regulations and compliance duties in various EU and third countries
#3/2020
WTS Value Added Tax
Newsletter
Recent or expected changes in VAT and GST regulations and compliance duties in various EU and third countries
#2/2020
WTS Value Added Tax
Newsletter
Recent or expected changes in VAT and GST regulations and compliance duties in various EU and third countries
#1/2020
WTS Value Added Tax
Newsletter
Recent or expected changes in VAT and GST regulations and compliance duties in various EU and third countries

Recent or expected changes in VAT and GST regulations and compliance duties in various EU and third countries

EU Member-States

  • France: VAT reform for e-commerce
  • Germany I: Reduced VAT rates until 31 December 2020
  • Germany II: Revised definition of work deliveries

Other countries

  • Chile: VAT exemption on import of capital goods
  • KSA: Application of VAT to provision of collateral (liens and mortgages)
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Recent or expected changes in VAT and GST regulations and compliance duties in various EU and third countries

EU Member-States

  • Greece: VAT suspension for newly developed real estate properties
  • Ireland: Reduction VAT standard rate


Other countries

  • Azerbaijan: VAT action plan
  • Chile: New VAT Legislation for Digital Services
  • China: VAT refinement continues
  • India: Implementation of e-invoicing system for B2B supplies from October 2020
  • Malaysia: Malaysian Digital Service Tax - Did you miss the boat on 1 January 2020?
  • Nigeria: VAT changes
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Recent or expected changes in VAT and GST regulations and compliance duties in various EU and third countries

EU Member-States

  • Belgium: Monthly VAT refund for “starters”
  • Czech Republic: Generalised reverse charge mechanism
  • Denmark: The export VAT system – cash optimisation
  • France: VAT cash optimisation
  • Germany: Temporary cut in VAT rates and extension of payment due dates for import VAT
  • Hungary: VAT compliance basics for non-residents
  • Italy: E-invoicing / Proof of transport (EU)

 

Further countries

  • Angola: COVID-19 and other VAT news
  • Chile: Relevant VAT changes
  • Costa Rica: VAT Law since 2019 – basics
  • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: VAT rate increase to 15%
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Recent or expected changes in VAT and GST regulations and compliance duties in various EU and third countries

EU Member-States

  • France: New tax obligations for online marketplaces
  • Hungary: Most important changes to online invoice reporting
  • Poland: Changes regarding taxes as of 2020
  • Romania: Annulment of split VAT regime


Further countries

  • Angola: Cabinda VAT Special Regime, VAT in LNG Project, Reverse charge in Transitory VAT Regime
  • Azerbaijan: Amendments to the Tax Code
  • GCC States I (KSA): Value added tax in KSA
  • GCC States II (Oman, Qatar and Kuwait): The VAT Marathon – The Clock Is Ticking for Oman, Qatar and Kuwait
  • Nigeria: Recent VAT updates
  • Singapore I: Exempting digital payment tokens from GST
  • Singapore II: Levying GST on imported services
  • Turkey: Digital Services Tax
  • Ukraine: Plans to tax supplies of digital services from non-residents
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International Tax & Permanent Establishments

#1/2019
WTS ITP
Newsletter
Changes in international tax law and country-specific developments with respect to the taxation of permanent establishments in 10 selected countries

Changes in international tax law and country-specific developments with respect to the taxation of permanent establishments in 10 selected countries

  • Austria: Construction PE – Austrian MoF on influence of trial runs and subcontracting
  • Azerbaijan: Amendments to the Tax Code of Azerbaijan
  • Benin: Permanent Establishments – forthcoming developments after introduction of public-private partnership law
  • Chile: Permanent establishment – a modern concept?
  • Indonesia: Development of permanent establishment in Indonesia
  • Malaysia: Permanent establishment: a total revamp or just a formality?
  • The Netherlands: Changing (Dutch) permanent establishment
  • Pakistan: Permanent establishment tax regime – key developments and issues
  • Senegal: For a contract concluded between a Senegalese company and a foreign one, are all the products necessarily subject to corporate income tax (CIT) in Senegal?
  • Vietnam: Permanent establishment (PE) in Vietnam
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Newsletter Private Clients & Family Office Services

#2/2018
WTS Private Clients
Newsletter
Update and overview on current developments in relevant tax and legal developments in 7 selected countries
#1/2018
WTS Private Clients
Newsletter
Update on current developments in relevant tax and legal environments in 9 selected countries

Update and overview on current developments in relevant tax and legal developments in 7 selected countries

  • Austria: The transparent shareholder
  • Brazil: Deadline to disclose the Ultimate Beneficial Owner to the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service
  • France: 2018 French finance bill – Individual Tax: Main Provisions
  • Germany: Planned limited taxability on the sale of shares in foreign corporations holding German real estate
  • Mexico: Bill of amendments to the Mexican federal income tax law inheritance, bequest and gift tax
  • Spain: Spanish Supreme Court ends overt discrimination against non-EU/EEA tax residents subject to Spanish Inheritance/Gift tax
  • Ukraine: Non-resident individual income taxation: recent trends
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Update on current developments in relevant tax and legal environments in 9 selected countries

  • Austria: Prohibition on deduction of incidental acquisition costs for private investors
  • Belgium: Belgium look-through taxation referred to as Cayman tax, modified as of 1 January 2018. Distributions from trusts mainly the target of this new legislation
  • Brazil: Statement of Transactions Liquidated in Cash
  • Brazil: Changes to Tax on Donations and Inheritances in Rio de Janeiro
  • Italy: Italian Flat Tax Regime
  • Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: UBO register very close to being introduced in Luxembourg
  • Mexico: Capital Repatriation Decree
  • Portugal: A very competitive tax regime
  • Switzerland: Tax benefits due to private investments in real estate
  • United States: 2017 Tax Legislation Impacts All Taxpayers
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Newsletter Transfer Pricing

#1/2021
WTS Transfer Pricing
Newsletter
Transfer Pricing Newsletter: Update on the recent news and cases in 13 countries
#2/2020
WTS Transfer Pricing
Newsletter
Transfer Pricing Newsletter: Update on the recent news and cases in 13 countries
#1/2020
WTS Transfer Pricing
Newsletter
Transfer Pricing Newsletter: Update on the recent news and cases in 14 countries as well as an OECD update on Pillar 1
#2/2019
WTS Transfer Pricing
Newsletter
The global transfer pricing environment is changing in a dynamic way - read more!

Transfer Pricing Newsletter: Update on the recent news and cases in 13 countries

Europe

  • France: Proof of the interest rate applied between related companies
  • Spain: Transposition of directive 2017/1852, of the council of 10 October 2017, relating to the integration of mechanisms or the resolution of tax disputes in the European Union into Spanish domestic law
  • Sweden: New guidance on financial guarantees
  • Ukraine: New business purpose test in Ukrainian tax law


Further Countries

  • Argentina: Argentina adds new transfer pricing documentation requirements for operations with intermediaries
  • Chile: Adoption of new transfer pricing requirements: master file & local file
  • Costa Rica: Transfer pricing update for Costa Rica
  • India: Updates on the Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP)
  • Nigeria: Averting penalties on TP transactions by means of proper TP compliance
  • Senegal: The Multilateral Convention of OECD BEPS project: Senegal’s position and its impact on its bilateral DTTs
  • Taiwan: Draft amendments to transfer pricing assessment rule
  • Vietnam: New decrees on transfer pricing
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Transfer Pricing Newsletter: Update on the recent news and cases in 13 countries

  • France: Impact of the crisis on transfer prices
  • Germany: Suggested draft law on IC financing: typification of the arm’s length principle also applicable to domestic transactions? – A comparison of tax consequences in cross-border and domestic cases
  • Hungary: Recent Hungarian developments in transfer pricing with a focus on impacts of COVID-19
  • Italy: The New Italian Law on International tax disputes settlement
  • Netherlands: “To dip or not to dip, that is the question”
  • Ukraine: New proportionate TP adjustment rules introduced into Ukrainian tax law since May 2020!
  • Argentina: “Argentine Transfer Pricing News - 2020 Second Trimester”
  • Chile: Revision of formal obligations: what to expect
  • Nigeria: Applicable TP Methods in Nigeria – Analysing prime plastichem Nigeria limited V federal inland revenue services
  • Pakistan: Transfer Pricing Audit
  • Taiwan: One-time Transfer Pricing adjustment in Taiwan
  • Thailand: Transfer Pricing Update
  • Vietnam: The impact of the new Law on Tax Administration on Transfer Pricing
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Transfer Pricing Newsletter: Update on the recent news and cases in 14 countries as well as an OECD update on Pillar 1

  • Argentina: Argentine Transfer Pricing News – 2020 First Trimester
  • Austria: Implementation of the EU Directive on Tax Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
  • Belgium: Belgian Tax Administration (BTA) published final version of the circular letter “Transfer Pricing”
  • Brazil: Dialogue Between Brazil and OECD on the Alignment of Brazilian Transfer Pricing Rules with the OECD Standard
  • Germany: I/C Financial Transaction and Transfer Pricing: Final OECD Guidance and Germany’s Bilateral Position
  • Italy: Arm’s Length Range – Recent Case Laws
  • OECD: Pillar One – Not Only the Taxation of Digital Business Models is Under Discussion!
  • Poland: New Transfer Pricing Reporting Obligations
  • Romania: Transfer Pricing update for Romania
  • Senegal: The New Regulation Provided by Law no. 2018-10 Amending the Senegalese Tax Law on Transfer Pricing
  • Republic of Serbia: Transfer Pricing Treatment of Purchasing Fixed Assets
  • Thailand: Transfer Pricing update for Thailand
  • Turkey: Legislative Works with Regard to BEPS Action 13 are Completed via Presidential Decree No: 2151
  • Ukraine: Ukrainian Parliament Implements Three-Tier Approach to TP Documentation and Other Important Changes to the Tax Code
  • Vietnam: Advance Pricing Agreements gaining importance
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The global transfer pricing environment is changing in a dynamic way - read more!

  • Austria: Limits of temporary relief in the MAP (Mutual Agreement Procedure)
  • China: Chinese taxation in the era of digitisation
  • Hong Kong: Hong Kong IRD issues guidance regarding TP Documentation and CbCR
  • Netherlands: The EU General Court’s judgement in Starbucks’ state aid case
  • Nigeria: Transfer Pricing in Nigeria – Navigating a Tax Dispute Resolution
  • Pakistan: A Paradigm Shift in the Approach to Transfer Pricing in Pakistan
  • Russia: Changes in Russian TP legislation effective as of 2020
  • Saudi Arabia: Recent developments in KSA transfer pricing
  • Switzerland: The Swiss Tax Reform coming into force on 1 January 2020
  • United Arabic Emirates (UAE): Transfer Pricing Regulations in the UAE
  • Vietnam: 2020 Tax audits in Vietnam for Foreign Invested Companies will focus on TP
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