Features

In the context of a changing global trade and investment environment, and China’s economic slowdown, tax enforcement approaches are evolving and maturing. Chris Xing and Conrad Turley trace the latest trends.

Recent years have seen striking changes in the VAT landscape, both in China and overseas, in relation to the scope of the tax, its mode of operation and the technology underpinning it. Lachlan Wolfers reviews a series of predictions made in 2014.

Dinesh Kanabar and Rishi Kapadia of Dhruva Advisors take a close look at India’s 2019-20 budget and the Finance Bill 2019, which together promise broad-reaching reforms to the tax regime.

Tommaso Di Tanno, professor and founder of Di Tanno e Associati, explains how the EU and OECD efforts to tax the digital economy are progressing.

Italy’s Supreme Court has issued a controversial decision on the requirements necessary to benefit from withholding tax (WHT) exemptions on profits distributed to companies resident in other EU member states. Chiomenti’s Paolo Giacometti and Raul-Angelo Papotti discuss what this means for the Parent-Subsidiary Directive.

Italy has one of Europe’s most active leveraged buyout markets, and local regulators have been eager to ensure such activity is sufficiently taxed. LED Taxand’s Guido Arie Petraroli and Patrizio Braccioni explore recent legislative tax changes in Italy and Europe and how this will impact private equity activity.