Iceland News

OECD Releases 2020 Tax Trends Report
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Tax revenues fell across the OECD for the first time in a decade during 2019, but a much larger decrease is expected in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the OECD's newly released annual Revenue Statistics report. Read Full Story

BEPS Changes To Nordic Double Tax Agreement To Take Effect
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels
Monday, December 2, 2019
The double tax agreement between the Nordic countries will be updated with new anti-tax base erosion and profit shifting provisions with effect from January 1, 2020. Read Full Story

Switzerland, EU To Link Emissions Trading Systems
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels
Friday, November 15, 2019
Switzerland and the EU are to link their emissions trading systems from next year, after the Swiss Federal Council approved revisions to the country's Ordinance on the Reduction of CO2 Emissions. Read Full Story

EFTA And Mercosur Blocs Conclude Free Trade Deal
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.con, Brussels
Thursday, August 29, 2019
The European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) and the Mercosur group of countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) concluded in substance a broad-based free trade agreement at the tenth round of negotiations from August 20 to 23, 2019. Read Full Story

Switzerland Approves FTA With Indonesia
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels
Friday, May 31, 2019
The Swiss Federal Council has issued a dispatch on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Free Trade Association states and Indonesia. Read Full Story

Switzerland Consults On Linking With EU Emissions System
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
The Swiss Federal Council is consulting on proposed changes to the CO2 Ordinance, which would link the Swiss and EU emissions trading systems. Read Full Story

EFTA States, Indonesia Ink Trade Deal
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels
Friday, December 21, 2018
The European Free Trade Association states – Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Iceland – and Indonesia have signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), which will slash tariffs on a majority of industrial goods. Read Full Story

OECD States Tapped VAT, CIT To Achieve Record Revenues In 2017
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels
Friday, December 7, 2018
Last year, the tax burden in OECD countries reached its highest level recorded, at 34.2 percent of gross domestic product, up 20 basis points on 2016, largely due to increasing taxes on personal consumption and companies. Read Full Story

Swiss Government Signs Off On Tax, Trade Issues
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels
Friday, November 30, 2018
Switzerland's Government has recently decided on a number of trade matters and reviewed its plans for changes to how it administers vehicle taxes. Read Full Story

Switzerland Begins Sharing Tax Data Internationally
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels
Friday, October 12, 2018
Switzerland has made its first exchanges under the new international automatic exchange of information framework, the Common Reporting Standard. Read Full Story
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