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Armenia

Armenia, Malta to sign tax treaty: Armenpress→

June 27, 2019

Asia-Pacific

Pakistan, Bulgaria sign tax treaty: Faisal Saeed / TechJuice→

May 22, 2019

Asia-Pacific

India defers GAAR reporting provisions

May 14, 2019

Prabhakar K S of Shree Tax Chambers writes that the Indian government, on May 14, for the second time deferred reporting requirements for general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR) compliance . . .

Asia-Pacific

Jones Day’s nabs eight Clayton Utz tax lawyers for Melborne office

May 13, 2019

Eight tax Clayton Utz tax controversy lawyers, led by Dr. Niv Tadmore, have joined . . .

Asia-Pacific

BHP settles dispute with Western Australia over taxation of royalties on iron ore sold though Singapore hub: Reuters→

July 1, 2019

Americas

OECD releases transfer pricing country profiles for Chile, Finland, Italy; updates Colombia, Israel profiles

June 18, 2019

The OECD today released new transfer pricing country profiles for . . .

Asia-Pacific

Japan, Finland to negotiate tax treaty amendments

May 21, 2019

The governments of Japan and Finland will . . .

Switzerland, South Korea sign tax treaty protocol

May 17, 2019

Switzerland and South Korea today signed a protocol to their 1980 tax treaty adding . . .

Asia-Pacific

New Zealand’s revised transfer pricing regime

May 13, 2019

Leslie Prescott-Haar, Stefan Sunde, and Sophie Day of TP EQuilibrium | AustralAsia LP, discuss final international tax and transfer pricing guidance published by the New Zealand Inland Revenue April 29 . . .

Asia-Pacific

Synthesized text of Japan-UAE tax treaty published showing MLI modifications

July 20, 2019

The Japanese government on July 1 published the . . .

Africa

OECD seeks input on tax dispute resolution in Andorra, Anguilla, Bahamas, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman, Faroe Islands, Macau, Morocco, Tunisia

July 17, 2019

The OECD on July 5 requested taxpayer feedback on the tax treaty dispute . . .

Asia-Pacific

Hong Kong, Cambodia sign tax treaty

June 26, 2019

Hong Kong and Cambodia today signed . . .

Asia-Pacific

Malaysian prime minister advocates e-commerce tax on online business: Danisha Hakeem / The Online Citizen→

June 24, 2019

Asia-Pacific

Synthesized text of Australia-Singapore tax treaty published: Australian Taxation Office→

May 25, 2019

Americas

US formally asks the EU to “ditch” digital tax

October 22, 2018

Alan Rhode, co-founder of Taxmen.eu, discusses a US Senate Finance Committee letter, released last week, challenging the EU digital services tax, as well the latest positions of EU countries on the controversial proposal . . .

Asia-Pacific

Australia issues final tax guidance on central management and control test for foreign companies

June 27, 2018

The Australian Taxation Office has issued final taxation guidance setting out how the . . .

Asia-Pacific

Macau ready to sign OECD agreement to allow automatic tax information exchange: Nelson Moura / Macau News Agency→

May 7, 2018

Cook Islands joins “Inclusive Framework on BEPS” to fight tax avoidance

January 5, 2019

The Cook Islands has joined the “Inclusive Framework on BEPS,” a coalition of countries . . .

Americas

China faces US, Hong Kong pressure to relax plan to tax worldwide income of individuals residing 183+ days there: Jane Cai / South China Morning Post→

November 5, 2018

Asia-Pacific

China begins automatic exchange of financial account information to curtail cross-border tax avoidance: Peoples Daily Online→

September 10, 2018

Asia-Pacific

Israel Supreme Court rules stock-based compensation must be added to cost base for transfer pricing

April 29, 2018

Shlomo Hubscher and Jacky Houlie of JH & Co. Law Office analyze an April 22 Israel Supreme Court decision which concluded that companies that use the cost plus transfer pricing method must include stock-based compensation in the cost base, thus increasing the taxes paid by many multinational firms with research and development operations in Israel . . .

Asia-Pacific

Six Bangladesh lawyers threaten a lawsuit unless Google, Yahoo, Amazon, YouTube, Amazon pay more taxes: Dhaka Tribune→

April 10, 2018

Asia-Pacific

Hong Kong gazettes law on joining multilateral tax agreement

February 5, 2018

Hong Kong’s Inland Revenue Department on February 2 published in the official gazette a law providing the legal framework for Hong Kong to join a multilateral tax agreement on implementing automatic exchange of information in tax matters (AEOI), automatic exchange of country-by-country reports of multinational corporations, and spontaneous . . .

Africa

Pakistan to reshuffle government office receiving master file, country-by-country reports; impose fines for nonfiling: Irshad Ansari / The Express Tribune→

January 29, 2019

Asia-Pacific

South Korea approves bill imposing 10 percent VAT on technology companies: Pulse→

December 11, 2018

Asia-Pacific

Australian tax authority settles BHP transfer pricing dispute over marketing hub

November 19, 2018

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) today confirmed that it has reached a settlement with mining giant BHP to resolve a transfer pricing dispute . . .

More News

New Zealand ratifies BEPS MLI

August 2, 2018

New Zealand has ratified the BEPS multilateral instrument (MLI) the New Zealand government today announced. The treaty, formally . . .

Asia-Pacific

Pakistan’s Senate rejects government proposal to tax revenue from online activities including digital advertising: Mehtab Haider / The News→

May 7, 2018

Americas

China to immediately impose tariffs on 128 US products: Damian Paletta / The Washington Post→

April 2, 2018

Asia-Pacific

Singapore tax officials again consider making private tax rulings public

March 19, 2018

The Inland Revenue Service of Singapore today announced it is seeking public feedback on whether advance tax rulings should be made public while protecting . . .

Asia-Pacific

India, Netherlands negotiating tax treaty amendment to plug share transfer loophole: Gireesh Chandra Prasad / LiveMint→

April 10, 2019

Americas

India, US sign agreement for exchange of country-by-country reports: Hindu Business Line→

March 27, 2019

Asia-Pacific

New Zealand to explore digital services tax for multinationals

February 19, 2019

The New Zealand government today announced that it will open . . .

Asia-Pacific

Dyson to move its headquarters from UK to Singapore, claims tax reduction will be “negligible”: Michael Pooler & Jim Pickard / Financial Times→

January 22, 2019

Africa

IMF paper concludes African countries worse off for signing tax treaties with “investment hubs” like Mauritius

October 26, 2018

African countries that signed tax treaties with Mauritius and other nations considered to be “investment hubs” did . . .

Asia-Pacific

New Zealand proposal would impose GST on foreign online low-value sales

October 17, 2018

New Zealand’s Minister of Revenue today announced proposed new GST rules applicable to online . . .

Asia-Pacific

Saudi Arabia publishes English-language VAT guides

October 5, 2018

The Saudi Arabia tax authority has published English-language versions of four . . .

Asia-Pacific

Australian Taxation Office to focus on migration of IP offshore, official says: Nassim Khadem / The Sydney Morning Herald→

July 18, 2018

Asia-Pacific

New Zealand passes BEPS bill to prevent multinational tax avoidance

June 27, 2018

New Zealand’s parliament has passed the Taxation (Neutralising Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) Bill, aimed at curtailing tax avoidance by multinationals, Revenue Minister . . .

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