• The Digital Tax Puzzle
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Monday, April 8, 2019

  The tax challenges of the digital economy are seemingly being tackled at multiple levels. On the one hand, countries are working collectively under the umbrella of the OECD to reach a consensus on new international tax...
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• Amendments to Cyprus Citizenship by Investment Scheme
  Contributed by Seamark Consultants Ltd
  Tuesday, April 2, 2019

  The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus approved on 13 February 2019 a number of important amendments to the Citizenship by Investment Scheme, now officially termed as Cypriot Investment Scheme (the 'Scheme'), offered by the country...
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• Budget Round-up
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Friday, March 1, 2019

  Governments across the world are apt to use national budgets as an opportunity to make changes to a country's tax regime in order to raise additional tax revenue, encourage higher investment and personal consumption, or tackle tax avoidance...
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• Dubai - Land of the Free Zone
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Tuesday, February 19, 2019

  The emirate of Dubai extends along the Arabian Gulf coast of the United Arab Emirates for approximately 72 kilometers and constitutes just five percent of the total area of the United Arab Emirates...
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• The EU's response to BEPS - are you ATAD-ready?
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Wednesday, February 6, 2019

  The European Union's response to the OECD BEPS project, the Anti-Avoidance Directive (ATAD I) has brought about extensive changes to the corporate tax regimes of EU member states effective January 1, 2019...
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• Malta Focus
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Thursday, November 15, 2018

  Malta is a politically stable parliamentary democracy; it has been a member of the European Union (EU) since May 2004 and adopted the euro in 2008. Unlike Cyprus - the other EU island nation...
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• India's GST - One Nation, One Tax Regime
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Wednesday, November 7, 2018

  Nigh on 17 years in the making, India's nationwide Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was finally introduced on July 1, 2017, and rolled out nationwide a week later when the state of Jammu and Kashmir adopted the law...
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• United States Tax Reform Highlights
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Thursday, January 25, 2018

  On December 21, 2017, United States President Donald Trump signed into the law the most far-reaching changes to the US tax code in more than 30 years. The key provisions of the legislation, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)...
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• European Union VAT Reform - Reshaping The EU VAT Regime
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Wednesday, November 29, 2017

  In October 2017, the European Commission released plans for what it has said will be the biggest reform of EU VAT rules in a quarter of a century. These proposals, and the reasons why the Commission sees the need for...
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• CCCTB FAQ
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Wednesday, November 8, 2017

  The European Union Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) has been talked about recently as a solution to the problem of an imperfect pan-EU corporate tax system, which allows large companies, particularly those...
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• The Age Of Automatic Information Exchange
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Tuesday, September 26, 2017

  September 2017 could be said to mark a historic point in international tax enforcement, as it is the month that around 50 jurisdictions have committed to making their first automatic exchanges of information under the OECD...
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• The Diverted Profits Tax
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Monday, September 11, 2017

  Earlier this year, global beverages company Diageo turn out to be the first company to become ensnared in the United Kingdom's new diverted profits tax (DPT) net. With tax experts predicting that it will be far from the last...
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• India's GST - One Nation, One Tax Regime
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Wednesday, August 2, 2017

  More than 10 years in the making, India's nationwide Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was finally introduced on July 1, 2017, and rolled out nationwide a week later when the state of Jammu and Kashmir adopted the law...
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• Spotlight On The EU Code Of Conduct Group
  Tax-News.com Editorial
  Tuesday, July 4, 2017

  The OECD may now be taking the plaudits for tackling "harmful" tax regimes around the world under the aegis of the base erosion and profit shifting project, but in many ways the ground had already been prepared for this by...
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• Malta Focus
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Friday, May 26, 2017

  Malta has been obliged to dismantle its old "offshore" companies regime as a trade-off for joining the European Union. EU membership has, however, brought about certain benefits for Maltese companies trading across borders...
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• The Rise Of The Netflix Tax
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Thursday, April 27, 2017

  This special Tax-News.com feature discusses the emergence of so-called "Netflix taxes," so named as governments attempt to expand the scope of consumption tax regimes to cover cross-border supplies of electronic services...
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• Court-By-Country Reporting - A Progress Report
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Tuesday, April 4, 2017

  The call for multinational entities to report, in a standardized format, more information about their business activities and tax position in each country in which they have branches and subsidiaries is a key element of...
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• Hong Kong Review
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Wednesday, March 8, 2017

  Following Financial Secretary Paul Chan's 2017/18 Budget presentation, this special feature gets under the surface of Hong Kong to find out how its favorable tax and regulatory regime, and its special relationship with China...
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• A Year In Tax
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Friday, December 23, 2016

  2016 will go down in the history books for many reasons. And there has been no shortage of interesting developments in international tax in the past year, as we recount in this special feature...
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• What Will A Trump Presidency Mean For US Tax?
  By Tax-News.com Editorial
  Thursday, November 24, 2016

  United States president-elect Donald Trump has promised more than USD4 trillion in tax cuts, and with the White House and Congress expected to be on the same page on the issue of tax for the first time in six years...
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