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With a stark divergence between MNEs that prepared early and those rushing to catch up, advisers must remain agile with all manner of compliance risks
The EU agreed new cooperative and investigative measures to tackle VAT fraud, while Hungary faced legal action and Lavez Coutinho expanded its indirect tax team
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

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  • Magdalena Zamoyska From 2018 Polish companies will not be allowed to deduct costs of their capital investment activity from operational revenue.
  • Mark Galea Salomone Donald Vella The guidelines issued in relation to the implementation of EU Council Directive 2014/107/EU of December 9 2014, amending Directive 2011/16/EU as regards mandatory automatic exchange of information in the field of taxation (DAC2), in Malta and the common reporting standard (CRS) were updated on July 6 2017. Specifically with respect to trusts, the Commissioner for Revenue has introduced clarifications to the guidelines, which the Inland Revenue Department has deemed necessary for the purposes of a more correct application of the regulations.
  • Since 2010, the Young Tax Professional of the Year competition has been open to young students around the world. Joe Stanley-Smith caught up with the first and second prize winners, Karl Frenzel and Tetiana Polonska, to hear their views on the competition, university education today and how it feels to graduate into such a rapidly changing tax market.
  • Dorina Asllani Ndreka With Law No. 33/2017 approved on April 21 2017 and entering into force on May 7 2017, the Albanian Parliament has relieved businesses from old unpaid tax and custom duties.
  • Brendan Brown Claude Smith New Zealand was one of many countries to sign the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (MLI) at a signing ceremony in Paris on June 7 2017. New Zealand has 40 double tax agreements (DTAs), 31 of which are with jurisdictions that have signed the MLI. In 27 cases, New Zealand and the DTA partner have elected that the DTA will be covered by the MLI; these DTAs are referred to as covered tax agreements (CTAs).
  • It would be difficult to imagine a man more ill-suited to high office than Donald Trump, nor a presidency so spectacularly disastrous a mere eight months in. Gung-ho gaffer George W Bush seemed almost statesmanlike in comparison. Even when Trump is calling for peace, love and unity, he gets it wrong.
  • Joe Duffy Tomás Bailey, The Irish Department of Finance published a briefing document in June 2017 that was prepared for the newly appointed Minister for Finance (the Brief). In addition to providing an overview of Ireland's business plan and economic priorities, the Brief provides an updated insight into Ireland's international tax policy.
  • Burçin Gözlüklü Ramazan Biçer Guidance that details how the Turkish tax authorities will determine whether to call a taxpayer to justify his declaration before initiating a tax audit have finally been released, almost year after this new mechanism was put in place.
  • Mark Martin Mark Horowitz On July 26 2017, the US Tax Court issued a memorandum opinion in Eaton Corp. v. Commissioner, TC Memo 2017-147 that concluded, in part, that cancellation by the IRS of advance pricing agreements (APAs) was an abuse of discretion.
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