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 MathesonThe Irish Revenue Commissioners (Revenue) were successful in arguing before the Appeal Commissioners that no general trading deduction should be available for excess foreign tax incurred on royalties where an Irish tax credit was claimed for part of the foreign tax withheld. The decision is being appealed to the High Court. -
Sponsored by Russell McVeaghThe New Zealand Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision allowing a New Zealand taxpayer foreign tax credits for tax spared (under Chinese law) to Chinese companies treated as controlled foreign companies under New Zealand's CFC rules.
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Sponsored by Deloitte SwitzerlandOn March 21 2018, the Swiss Federal Council sent to the Swiss Parliament the dispatch on the draft legislation for the so-called Swiss Tax Reform Proposal 17.
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