The arrival of a team from Brazilian rival Costa Tavares Paes Advogados brings SiqueiraCastro’s tax headcount to seven partners and 30 associates
CSR initiatives can sometimes venture into virtue signalling, but Ryan’s tax literacy event for schoolchildren was a genuine and necessary endeavour
Grant Thornton advanced plans to integrate its Australian firm into its US arm, as tax developments spanned law firm hires, aviation levies and digital services taxes
A new focus on early intervention and increased AI use is transforming how tax authorities are approaching TP audits, though capacity-constrained jurisdictions risk falling behind
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Sponsored by Crowe Valente/Valente Associati GEB PartnersFederico Vincenti and Carola Valente Della Rovere of Valente Associati GEB Partners/Crowe examine a recent decision concerning the transfer pricing treatment of non-remunerated intra-group guarantees, focusing on economic substance, legal form, and group-level business justifications
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Sponsored by McCarthy TétraultThe key changes under Budget 2025 and the outlook for 2026 raise several areas of heightened focus for taxpayers, say Matthew Kraemer, Adam N Unick, and Justin Ng of McCarthy Tétrault
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Sponsored by Lakshmikumaran & SridharanThe Tiger Global Supreme Court ruling weakens the status of tax residency certificates under tax treaties and increases substance‑based scrutiny, say S Vasudevan, Bharathi Krishnaprasad, and Krishna Laasya V of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
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Mexican taxpayers have encountered certain difficulties when filing transfer pricing informative tax returns. Manuel Scapachini and Ignacio Mosquera of Chevez, Ruiz, Zamarripa y Cia address some of the practical issues regarding the master informative tax return and the local informative tax return.
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The Greek codified civil law rules provide that a married couple is expected to share a single residence. Thus, the Greek Tax Administration has traditionally followed the concept of a single joint family residence for tax purposes. It has considered that, if the spouse is left behind, the departing taxpayer may not change his/her tax residence status from Greek to foreign, regardless of any other parameters, following a narrow interpretation of the centre of vital interests.
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In 2017, Switzerland continued to be an ever more attractive tax location for multinational and domestic enterprises alike, while at the same time becoming more aligned with international tax legislation, a trend that will continue for 2018.
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On November 6 2017, the Irish Revenue Commissioners (Revenue) issued new guidance on the VAT treatment of payment services. The guidance was issued in the wake of a series of cases decided by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the VAT treatment of such services including Everything Everywhere (C-276/09), AXA UK (C-175/09), Bookit Ltd (C-607/14) and National Exhibition Centre Ltd (C-130/15).
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act proposes the most significant changes in US tax law in more than three decades.
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Recognised as global innovation and financial potential in international financial markets with assets of $7.45 trillion, national wealth funds have recently become one of the most important financial instruments and had the ability to stamp out the structure of national economies.
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A Republican senator has defended the lack of tax cuts for working class Americans in the GOP tax bill by saying that they would only spend "every darn penny" on "booze or women or movies" anyway.
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Every year the European Commission adopts its work programme setting out the list of actions it will take in the year ahead. The work programme informs the public and the EU's co-legislators (Council of the EU and European Parliament) of the Commission's political commitments to present new initiatives, withdraw pending proposals and review existing EU legislation.
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The new draft budget plan, the so-called 'Stability Law for 2018', launched in the past few weeks by the Italian government, defines the lines of public finance for next year and focuses on important fiscal and spending measures.