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May 24, 2013
The new draft of Form W-8BEN-E, which non-US entities must complete for the purposes of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and other US withholding tax rules, is substantially different from the previous version that came out a year ago, practitioners say.
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May 23, 2013
Legal & General won PwC’s 2012 Building Public Trust award for the best tax reporting in the FTSE 100. The company’s tax team explains its approach to tax transparency and tax reporting, including why it has published country-by-country analysis of taxes borne and collected.
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May 22, 2013
Jeffrey Owens, the OECD’s former head of tax, and Mick Moore, of the University of Sussex, believe their 10 point action plan for the G8 summit next month could achieve fairer taxation of multinationals, improve tax transparency and help developing countries build up their tax capacity.
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May 20, 2013
Australian budget; Brazil income tax exemptions; Dutch Supreme Court tax ruling; Germany DTA arbitration; France invoicing; Croatia’s EU membership; Tax compliance rules; FATCA
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May 20, 2013
International Tax Review has produced tax disputes reference guides for 26 countries. The guides look at how multinationals can avoid and manage tax disputes in each jurisdiction as well as offering insight about the future litigation strategies of individual tax authorities.
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May 16, 2013
Rosneft, the Russian energy company, was named as European in-house team of the year for direct tax at International Tax Review’s European Tax Awards last night.
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May 16, 2013
The next Global Transfer Pricing Forum will take place in New York on September 18th and 19th.
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May 16, 2013
President Obama has appointed Daniel Werfel as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
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May 14, 2013
Cristiane Magalhães and Fernanda Fiasco Ribeiro, of Machado Associados, explore a recent opinion (Opinion 202/2013) issued by the Office of the Attorney General of the National Treasury (PGFN) about the tax exemption applicable to the distribution of profits and dividends established by Article 10 of Law 9249/95.
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May 14, 2013
There is a new federal programme which promises a fresh landscape for tax benefits in Brazil.
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May 14, 2013
The main driving forces behind tax reform attempts in the US Congress - Max Baucus and Dave Camp - have launched a new website to increase stakeholder engagement in the tax reform process.
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May 13, 2013
Australian industry group wants tax cuts; CBI proposes tax principles; Finnish MAP; expert evidence in Canadian tax cases; indirect tax hikes in Japan; US Marketplace Fairness Act; Rand Paul on FATCA
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May 07, 2013
Last month, the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (MSCJ) solved several appeals of constitutional rights filed against Article 32, Section XVII, of the Mexican Income Tax Law (MITL).
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May 07, 2013
Fernando Lorenzo Salazar, of PwC Mexico, explains how taxpayers can make the most of Mexico’s tax amnesty programme (TAP) to settle their disputes.
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May 02, 2013
Deborah Toaze, of Blake, Cassels & Graydon, looks at what a Federal Court (Canada) (FC) ruling means for the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) ability to obtain foreign-based information from taxpayers.
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May 01, 2013
One of the UK’s Crown Dependencies, with which Britain has recently agreed new plans to improve tax reporting, has come out in favour of a pilot programme for introducing an international system of multilateral exchange of information.