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Through the authority of the Minister of Finance, Government of Indonesia has issued regulations to taxing crypto assets transactions. Although the legal position is still ambiguous, the Minister of Finance chose to go one step further by issuing tax regulations on crypto-asset transactions by applying value added tax (VAT) and withholding tax (WHT) starting in April 2022.
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Late 2021, Finland implemented a regulation concerning taxation of reverse hybrid arrangements included in article 9a of ATAD2 directive (Council directive (EU) 2017/952 amending Directive 2016/1164). The new rules have been implemented in Section 8a of the Finnish act on taxation of cross-border hybrid arrangements (Hybrid Act) and have been applied for fiscal year 2022 onwards.
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The tax regimes of the six countries—the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the State of Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman, the State of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates—that make up the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (better known as the GCC) are evolving and changing rapidly.
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Alex M. Parker, Capitol Counsel LLC, discusses why last year’s OECD-G20 global minimum tax agreement has revealed a scope much broader than most anticipated; provisions of the agreement, revealed in technical commentary released by the OECD in the past months, could affect everything from green energy incentives to affordable housing credits in the U.S.
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Luca Tortorella and Michele Targa, Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici, discuss the European Court of Justice Advocate General’s April 5 opinion in case C-694/20 that the provisions of DAC6 did not infringe on the right to a fair trial when the name of the intermediary claiming the privilege was not disclosed to tax authorities.
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Adrian ȚAGA, Romania’s National Tax Agency, discusses the April 7 European Court of Justice ruling in case C-333/20 Berlin Chemie A. Menarini that addresses whether in the underlying case the German shareholder has a permanent establishment for VAT purposes in the country of its Romanian subsidiary.
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Kyle Pomerleau, American Enterprise Institute, warns that while the Biden Administration’s recently released 2023 budget—which includes additional reforms to the tax treatment of multinational corporations—is intended to further align the U.S. tax code with the OECD’s Pillar Two model rules and enhance the competitiveness of U.S. multinational corporations, they actually could leave U.S. companies at a competitive disadvantage.
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Annemarie Wilmore, Johnson Winter & Slattery, discusses the latest developments in the Australian case of Singapore Telecom Australia Investments Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation when the Australian Federal Court issued a further decision on March 22, including its consideration of whether consequential adjustments to the transfer pricing benefit should be made to take into account carryforward losses.
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