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 MDDPNew regulations in the field of transfer pricing documentation came into force in Poland on January 1 2018.
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Sponsored by Garrigues PortugalThe taxation of income had been unclear since the recent boom in cryptocurrency trading. The new ruling has come to the delight of tax authorities.
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Sponsored by MathesonIn October 2017 a public consultation was launched by the Minister for Finance on Ireland's corporation tax code. The consultation followed on from the recommendations of independent expert Seamus Coffey, which were detailed in the recently published 'Review of Ireland's Corporation Tax Code' (Coffey Report). The consultation sought views on the implementation of a number of measures into Irish tax law. Among the modernising measures within the scope of the consultation were:
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