Lluís Fargas, vice president of tax and corporate development Europe at Alcoa, has been re-elected for the second consecutive year to Tax Executives Institute (TEI) executive committee.
Hong Kong’s newly signed double tax agreement (DTA) with Russia has supported the territory’s ongoing efforts to expand its international tax treaty network with jurisdictions along ‘the belt and road’.
India's Income Tax Simplification Committee (ITSC) has recommended amending income tax laws, specifically the Income Tax Act (ITA), to make it easier to do business in the country.
On November 13 2015 the Australian and German finance ministers, Mathias Cormann and Wolfgang Schauble, signed a new double tax agreement in Berlin. The agreement represents the first post-BEPS treaty agreed between two major economies.