Asia-Pacific

Australia proposes anti-hybrid law to combat multinational tax avoidance, announces plans for “targeted integrity rule”

The Australian government on November 24 released a draft law and explanatory materials implementing hybrid mismatch rules to combat multinational firm tax avoidance. The Australian government is also developing a “targeted integrity rule” to prevent circumvention of the hybrid mismatch rules as well as branch mismatch rules to further clamp down on MNE tax . . .

Americas

Argentina, Brazil agree on key tax treaty changes

Francisco Lisboa Moreira of Castro Barros, São Paulo, and Sandra Diaz of BaseFirma, Buenos Aires, discuss key changes to the Brazil-Argentina tax treaty, agreed to July 21, noting that taxpayers from both countries may need to evaluate this new arrangement . . .