GST to be enforced on e-commerce in New Zealand New Zealand’s November Taxation Bill has introduced a draft law which will impose GST on digital goods and services from October 1 2016. By Amelia Schwanke & Joe Stanley-Smith November 20 2015
ANALYSIS: India’s movement towards a non-adversarial tax regime It is well-documented that the Indian Government has been making efforts to promote a non-adversarial tax regime in India, but are taxpayers feeling a knock-on impact already? By Joe Stanley-Smith November 19 2015
EC grills 11 major multinationals on tax Anheuser-Busch InBev, Coca-Cola, Disney, IKEA, Amazon, Google, HSBC, Barclays, Facebook, Philip Morris International and McDonald’s today spoke to the European Commission’s TAXE committee. By Joe Stanley-Smith November 16 2015
€5,000 EU VAT threshold will be no use for businesses A €5,000 ($5,360) threshold will be of little or no help for businesses struggling with the European Union’s (EU’s) distance selling VAT regime for e-services, according to campaigners. By Joe Stanley-Smith November 12 2015
HMRC office closures could increase waiting times for multinationals The UK tax authority, HM Revenue & Customs, has announced it will close 170 tax offices across the UK as part of cost-cutting measures. By Joe Stanley-Smith November 12 2015
HMRC wins 'big tax case' on employee benefit trusts case against Rangers The UK tax authority HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has won a case at its third appeal against one of Europe’s biggest football clubs, Glasgow Rangers. By Joe Stanley-Smith November 10 2015
LONG READ: dispute resolution in BEPS – the good, the bad and the absent BEPS Action 14 makes great reading for fans of MAP, but fails to explore alternative dispute resolution (ADR) as much as some taxpayers had hoped. By Joe Stanley-Smith November 05 2015
Italy cancels 2016 VAT rise The Italian Parliament has announced an expansionary Budget which will freeze the headline VAT rate at 22%, rather than allowing it to rise to 24% as planned. By Joe Stanley-Smith November 05 2015
Japan’s distance-selling VAT regime a mystery to foreign companies One month after Japan introduced its distance-selling VAT regime, foreign companies are struggling to determine whether or not the new rules apply to services they provide. By Joe Stanley-Smith November 02 2015
Kenya to reinstate VAT on oil products The Kenyan government wants to raise more revenue by reinstating VAT on all oil products, but the proposal would cause a fuel price rise and could reduce the attractiveness of... By Joe Stanley-Smith October 29 2015
