Expert Analysis

Grant Thornton and BDO have come out in favour of reforming the UK’s auditing market, but the wider industry is divided over the best solution. Josh White investigates.

Tax is evolving at an ever-quicker pace. With BEPS action points being legislated into domestic law, treaty actions for the Multilateral Instrument (MLI), the introduction of the US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act from December 2017, trade/tariff initiatives and business complexity, is it time to create a formal high-level organisational role of chief strategic officer?

Joe Stanley-Smith sits down with Walter Hellerstein, the leading US academic on state and local taxation, to talk about Wayfair chaos, the US and EU’s shared indirect tax maladies and why so much intellectual effort is wasted on corporate taxation.

Interview with Mauricio Martínez D’Meza, S-LATAM tax controversy leader, Deloitte Mexico

Join ITR and Thomson Reuters on July 16 as a three-part webinar series concludes with real-world insights into how businesses are managing the e-invoicing transition and the strategies enabling global compliance

Johan Van der Paal and Bram Fouache of Deloitte Belgium explain how the EU’s VAT in the Digital Age Directive is reshaping VAT compliance across Europe, and how businesses can prepare for digital reporting and e-invoicing reforms

Vanesa Lanciotti of Deloitte Chile explores how recent reforms – including new advance pricing agreement rules, enhanced audit priorities, and disclosure requirements – are reshaping transfer pricing practice and compliance for multinationals operating in Chile

Senior Deloitte tax practitioners examine Mexico’s evolving approach to the OECD’s amount B and summarise the transfer pricing landscape in Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica

Senior Deloitte tax practitioners report that transfer pricing audits are homing in on intercompany services in Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela, and emphasise the need for early taxpayer preparation

Marek Kończak and Tomasz Janik of MDDP say Poland’s draft amendment to the Corporate Income Tax Act addresses two key CJEU rulings but leaves open questions on scope, timing, and safeguards

Renata Colafêmina and Rafaela Calçada Cruz of Machado Associados examine full non-cumulative taxation under Brazil’s new IBS/CBS regime, the current consumption system’s credits restrictions, and the challenges of the new tax model

Edouard Authamayou of Deloitte Luxembourg examines a tribunal ruling on hidden contributions and profit distributions that highlights the importance of robust evidence supporting the arm’s-length principle in intragroup financing arrangements and interest rate waivers