October 2018
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Sponsored by Eurofast AlbaniaThe Albanian Parliament on July 9 2018 approved a draft law submitted by the Council of Ministers that proposed several changes to income tax.
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Sponsored by Webber WentzelChanges made last year to South Africa's dividend stripping rules have effectively eliminated the ability of group companies to make use of the rollover relief provisions that historically have allowed qualifying liquidations or deregistration of group companies (both local and foreign) to be done on a tax-neutral basis.
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Sponsored by EY RomaniaIn recent years, due to the fairly low percentage of tax collection, the Romanian tax authorities (RTA) have increased pressure on revenue collection by various means.
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Sponsored by PwC BrazilOn 28 August 2018, Decree 9.482 was published, enacting amendments to the protocol to the convention between Brazil and Argentina.
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Sponsored by Eurofast GeorgiaGeorgian and Saudi officials signed an income tax treaty on March 14 2018, which has been forwarded for ratification.
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Sponsored by PwCOn September 12 2018, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivered his 2018 State of the European Union (EU) address at the European Parliament. Accompanying his speech were a number of more detailed policy documents, the most important of which was the Letter of Intent from Juncker and First VP Frans Timmermans to the presidents of the European Parliament and the Austrian EU Council presidency.
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Sponsored by Russell McVeaghIn June 2018, reforms intended to address BEPS became law in New Zealand with the enactment of the Taxation (Neutralising Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) Act 2018 (BEPS Act).
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Sponsored by Fenwick & WestThe Ninth Circuit reversed, and then withdrew its reversal of, the Tax Court's unanimous 'reviewed by the court' decision in Altera Corp. v. Commissioner, 145 T.C. 91 (2015), and held in a 2-1 decision that Treas. Reg. § 1.482-7(d)(2), requiring related entities to share the cost of employee stock compensation (the 2003 Regulation) was a valid regulation.
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Sponsored by KPMG USOn August 27 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced changes to the compliance assurance process (CAP) for future years. CAP is an IRS programme that allows select taxpayers to participate in advance resolution of issues with IRS personnel prior to filing their returns.