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The profession is fundamentally restructuring itself around what tax and accounting work should be, a Thomson Reuters leader told ITR
The big four firm is consolidating 16 entities across the region to create a single 6,000-partner behemoth
The ever-expansive firm has once again attracted a former ‘big four’ talent to lead the new offering
The expanded firm will comprise roughly 8,500 employees, including 550 partners; in other news, Paul Hastings and Macfarlanes made senior tax hires
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    Portugal has historically favoured source-based taxation on passive income, which has been coupled with stringent documentation requirements to claim the application of tax treaties (the so-called RFI forms). The Portuguese tax authorities have recently published a new set of procedural forms, this time to apply the transitional regime under the interest and royalties directive (council directive 2003/49/EC). Those developments provide a good pretext to outline the current state of play concerning outbound interest and royalty payments.