The UK-based big four spin-off firm has hired Marc Lien, who declared that most AI in professional services today is ‘cosmetic’
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
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Sponsored by DeloitteDeloitte pillar two experts Chad Hungerford and Alison Lobb share their insights on the latest developments and practical issues that are emerging – and what may lie ahead -
Sponsored by DeloitteDave Yaros, tax principal, Deloitte Tax LLP
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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
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Tax directors are dealing with more audits, but standardising global tax operations can greatly ease the burden because it helps tax authorities understand corporate tax positions better.
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Deloitte’s Phil Fortier and Tony Anderson summarise the transfer pricing (TP) measures in Canada’s 2019 federal budget.
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Tax directors have criticised a post-BEPS environment for emboldening less experienced, less technically-knowledgeable tax authorities to start transfer pricing audits based on “unsound arguments” to crack down on aggressive tax planning.
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The US IRS has revised its internal manual on TP examinations. Deloitte explores the memorandum’s impact on collaboration between large businesses and international taxpayers and the advance pricing and mutual agreement (APMA) programme.
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The ATO has issued a taxpayer alert on what it considers to be a high-risk mischaracterisation of payments for intangible assets. Deloitte Australia’s John Bland and Milla Ivanova explain the consequences.
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Italy’s tax authority clarified a number of transfer pricing regulations at the nation’s annual tax conference, Telefisco. Salvatore Mattia and Federico Vincenti from Crowe Valente explore the key changes surrounding penalty protections and discrepancies in tax filings.
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Corporate taxpayers expect country-by-country reporting (CbCR) to lead to a number of audits and subsequent disputes, but the tax authorities are yet to make a move and taxpayers are cautious of the silence.
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Companies are increasingly frustrated by the benchmarking process, questioning whether they are useful at all after finding that even the most carefully constructed benchmark studies can be challenged by tax authorities.
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Tax heads expressed their frustrations with how negotiations with tax authorities often end up in negotiated settlements, and their scepticism that these same tax authorities will agree with each other on global reforms, at an ITR conference today.
