Portugal News

Portugal To Lower VAT On Certain Utilities

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Monday, April 29, 2019

Senior Portuguese ministers have approved a proposal to introduce the six percent reduced rate of value-added tax on supplies of electricity and natural gas to certain consumers from July 1, 2019. Read Full Story

EU To Probe Potential Abuses Of Citizenship By Investment Schemes

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Monday, January 28, 2019

For the first time, the Commission has presented a comprehensive report on investor citizenship and residence schemes operated by a number of EU member states. Read Full Story

Finland-Portugal Tax Treaty Terminated

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Monday, January 14, 2019

The Portuguese Government has confirmed in a notice published in its Official Gazette that Portugal's tax treaty with Finland has been terminated effective January 1, 2019. Read Full Story

Swiss Gov't Approves BEPS Multilateral Instrument

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Friday, September 21, 2018

The Swiss Federal Council has approved an OECD multilateral convention designed to prevent BEPS-related abuse of the international tax treaty system. Read Full Story

OECD Releases More Transfer Pricing Country Guides

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Thursday, April 12, 2018

The OECD has published new transfer pricing country profiles for Australia, China, Estonia, France, Georgia, Hungary, India, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and Uruguay, bringing the number of such overviews published by the OECD to 44. Read Full Story

Denmark Tops Tax Burden League Table

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Denmark was found to have the heaviest burden of taxation as a percentage of the economy in a new study by accountancy firm UHY. Read Full Story

ECJ Rules Against Portugal In Input VAT Credit Dispute

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The European Court of Justice has provided a ruling against the Portuguese tax and customs authority in favor of a taxpayer who challenged the authority's decision that it should be retroactively precluded from deducting tax incurred on inputs in relation to a supply of leasing and letting transactions. The tax and customs authority required the taxpayer, Imofloresmira, to make adjustments to VAT deductions on the ground that the properties at issue had been unoccupied for over two years and were therefore regarded as no longer being used for the purposes of its own taxed transactions, even though, during that period, the company always had the intention of letting those properties and undertook the necessary steps to that end. Read Full Story

ECJ To Hear Portuguese Road Tax Complaint

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Saturday, February 17, 2018

The European Court of Justice has been asked to hear a challenge against the Portuguese road tax, in Case C-640/17 – Luis Manuel dos Santos v Fazenda Publica. Read Full Story

Netherlands Confirms Tax Treaty Negotiation Priorities

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

The Netherlands will seek to resume discussions towards double taxation avoidance treaties with several countries in 2018, including the United States, the Government has said. Read Full Story

EU Reports On States' Tax Reforms In 2017

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

The European Commission has released the 2017 edition of its survey of Tax Policies in the European Union, looking at the reforms undertaken by EU member states during the year. Read Full Story

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