International Updates
Under the 60-day rule in Cyprus, individuals are considered tax residents of Cyprus and benefit from the island's tax regime.
On December 10 2018, Portugal published Notice 144/2018 in the Official Gazette, announcing the new income tax treaty with Montenegro.
Russian legal entities that make capital gains from the sale of shares are eligible for a 0% tax rate, yet the criteria for satisfying this arrangement may not always be so simple.
Canada's Revenue Agency (CRA) confirmed in a recent technical interpretation (2017-071330117) that Canadian withholding tax can apply to the accrued (but unpaid) interest on a debt owed by a Canadian resident to a non-resident when the debt is assumed by another entity and such an assumption constitutes a "novation" of the debt obligation for purposes of the applicable commercial law.
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Sponsored by MDDPFrom 1 July 2018, Poland became one special economic zone (SEZ) with extensive tax exemptions available. Since the early 90s, taxpayers have been able to benefit from public aid in the form of the income tax exemption that applies to profits earned in SEZs. Most of the exemptions resulted from qualifying expenses relating to new investments and increases in employment, but only within very specified locations. -
Sponsored by Eurofast SerbiaThe Ministry of Finance of Serbia has adopted the 'rulebook' on arm's-length interest rates for 2018 (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No 18/18). The new rulebook applies when determining corporate income tax in 2018, while when determining the income tax for 2017, the interest rates to be used are those prescribed in the 2017 version of the rulebook (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No 21/17).
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Sponsored by Eurofast AlbaniaThe Albanian Parliament has introduced fundamental amendments, thus changing the methodology on which the payment of the tax on buildings was based.
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