Projected revenue losses and exemption requests are harming the project’s capability and viability
HMRC secured lengthy prison sentences in a major payroll VAT fraud case, while law firms announced tax promotions and hires
Significant changes include an update to profit markers and an alteration to how an ‘inbound distributor’ is defined
ITR sat down for a pre-event interview with Tim Zech, WTS Germany, and Jeff Soar, WTS UK, keynote speaker at next week’s ITR AI in Tax Forum 2026 in London
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Sponsored by AvalaraGovernments’ unprecedented access to transactional data is creating new indirect tax challenges for multinationals. Alex Baulf of Avalara summarises key regional developments ahead of a webinar sharing his practice-based insights -
Sponsored by Tax PartnerStephanie Eichenberger and Victoria Riep of Tax Partner provide a guide to Switzerland’s securities transfer tax for domestic and foreign investors, explaining when it is triggered and how to mitigate unexpected tax consequences
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Sponsored by CuatrecasasAndré Areias and Raquel Santos Ferreira of Cuatrecasas scrutinise Portugal’s use of increased municipal property tax on vacant properties and question whether extreme rate multipliers and weak procedural safeguards can withstand constitutional scrutiny
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Academics are pitching models to policymakers, including the OECD, that assess the impact of external factors such as corporate tax cuts on other parts of the tax base across countries.
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The OECD’s statistics on mutual agreement procedures (MAPs) released today show taxpayer confidence in the tool is growing, but it also reflects greater disagreement over international tax rules.
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The US has made it clear that it will “defend” its high-tech sector from the special tax measures being imposed on digital companies, but multinationals may have to rethink their supply chains if trade tensions escalate.
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The best rising stars lawyers from across the continent congregated at The Pierre Hotel last night to celebrate Euromoney Legal Media Group’s second annual Americas Rising Stars awards.
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As human expansion into space continues to develop, the obstacles arising could be an amplification of issues already present in taxing the digital economy.
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The 2019 IFA General Report on investment funds showed fund taxation is rapidly evolving, but an inconsistent and limited international definition on tax neutrality has limited funds from benefiting from cross-border treaties.
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The international tax system faces a “perilous moment” and the status quo is not an alternative if the OECD fails, US Treasury official Chip Harter told the IFA 2019 Congress in London.
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As CFOs are breathing down tax directors’ necks about artificial intelligence (AI) there is an increasing need to get in-house tax technology moving ahead of a fast-paced digital tax environment.
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UK taxpayers have told ITR that the first filings and overall process to comply with HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative has been relatively straightforward despite facing some obstacles.
