Hungary Archive

• February 2019

  

  Companies turn to insurance to push through M&A deals

  February 15, 2019

  Companies in the private equity and real estate sectors are increasingly turning to tax-specific insurance to expedite M&A deals.

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  Submit now for World Tax and World TP 2020

  February 11, 2019

  We are pleased to announce the official launch of World Tax and World TP 2020.

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  Investor pressure drives corporate tax policy development

  February 01, 2019

  Investors are giving serious consideration to their targets’ corporate tax policies before agreeing on the deal, but there are a number of companies that still have no such policy in place.

• January 2019

  

  Financial institutions adapt to tax transparency

  January 28, 2019

  Tax transparency initiatives such as the CRS, AEOI and FATCA, and the upcoming mandatory disclosure rules, are having a profound impact on the operations and IT infrastructure of financial institutions (FIs) worldwide. Ronald Frey, chief product officer of the RegTech product unit within BearingPoint, discusses how these are creating trends towards data alignment and centralisation, and are changing the role of FIs and wealth managers in cross-border tax reporting.

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  The battle for resources: Making the case for tax departments

  January 28, 2019

  The rate of change in the tax regulatory environment in recent years has been rapid, arguably more so than at any other time in recent history. Heads of tax are competing with colleagues in other functions for a share of finite budgets. The challenge is to show value for money, writes Sandy Markwick, head of the Tax Director Network at Winmark.

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  Not another tax department transformation

  January 28, 2019

  One of the principal subjects of discussion and analysis in tax in recent months is digitalisation. I am not only talking about the OECD, EU and unilateral proposals to address the taxation of the digital, or digitalised, economy, but also the potential of digital innovations to change business, tax administration and tax department processes.

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  EU’s majority voting proposal puts CCCTB back on the table

  January 21, 2019

  The common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) and digital services tax (DST) could be introduced if the EU Commission’s proposal for qualified majority voting (QMV) succeeds.

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  Will clearance e-invoicing spread through the EU?

  January 14, 2019

  Governments around the EU are watching Italy to see if its new mandatory e-invoicing system (Sistema di Interscambio, or SDI) works, and whether it is effective in increasing the VAT take.