Nouran Ibrahim and Mahmoud Ashraf of Saleh, Barsoum & Abdel Aziz – Grant Thornton Egypt say taxpayers required to submit transfer pricing documentation could avoid penalties by acting in response to a recently published law

Rabie Morsy and Karim Adel of Saleh, Barsoum & Abdel Aziz – Grant Thornton Egypt summarise three laws designed to facilitate the growth of SMEs and business as a whole through simplified tax procedures and incentives

Nouran Ibrahim and Karim Adel of Saleh, Barsoum & Abdel Aziz – Grant Thornton Egypt say mutual agreement procedures will have a vital role to play as the country modernises its tax infrastructure

Sarah Gard of DLA Piper Australia summarises the Australian Taxation Office’s draft guidance on determining whether the amount of inbound, cross-border related party debt is consistent with the arm’s-length conditions for transfer pricing purposes

Andrew Jackomos and Amit Bhalla of HLB Thailand examine how evolving global tax standards are reshaping the treatment of intragroup royalty payments and driving stricter compliance and documentation requirements

Jun Au of DLA Piper Australia analyses a recent Full Federal Court decision on the Australian Taxation Office’s application of the general anti-avoidance rules, with the judgment also addressing dividend stripping and the taxation of financial arrangements

Ricardo Seabra Moura of Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados analyses how Portugal’s withholding tax rules on interest payments may unlawfully discriminate against companies based in European Economic Area countries

Łukasz Kosonowski and Szymon Konieczny of MDDP examine how Poland’s Estonian-style corporate income tax regime is offering increasing benefits to domestic and foreign investors seeking deferral and lower dividend withholding tax

Victoria Robinson of KPMG Sweden examines the government’s proposal to reduce the rate of special income tax for non-residents to 20% from January 2026 as it strives to enhance tax neutrality and global competitiveness

Paulo Victor Vieira da Rocha and Murilo Jakuk of VRMA Advogados analyse the application of Brazil’s federal tax on industrialised products to intragroup goods transfers, after a ruling that addressed alleged tax planning abuses

Gabriel Caldiron Rezende and Juliana Mari Tanaka of Machado Associados discuss the impact of Brazil’s consumption tax reform on financial services, with a particular focus on the taxation of banking spreads

Gabriel Caldiron Rezende and Rafaela Calçada Cruz of Machado Associados discuss the impacts of the consumption tax reform on agribusiness, focusing on sector-specific concessions, challenges, and strategic responses

Paul Riley, Samuel Gordon and Ralf Heussner of Deloitte preview ITR’s upcoming financial services guide, produced in collaboration with global transfer pricing (TP) experts from Deloitte.

ITR and professional services firm TMF Group will host a webinar on July 16 on the tax dimensions of carve-outs, discussing how professionals can plan to successfully implement them in a cross-border setting.

Sim Siew Moon of EY presents an overview of how changes to the tax policy landscape have unfolded across the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Michael Bernard of Vertex says adapting to the US’s challenging tax regime relies on an understanding of what is known as the nexus principle

With 45 states imposing a sales tax, Michael Bernard of Vertex explains the key points to note for European businesses aiming to broaden their market and capitalise on the e-commerce boom in the US

Mark Martin and Thomas Bettge of KPMG in the US discuss the recent amount B consensus document and the associated compliance challenges

Niklas Elofsson and Vsevolod Konyshev of KPMG Sweden explore how tax functions can unlock demonstrable efficiency gains by using generative AI tools in a budget-constrained transformation landscape

Johannes Bangum, Maria Barenfeld, and Peter Nilsson of KPMG Sweden explain the main pillar two issues that arise in corporate acquisitions, including scope acceleration, top-up tax responsibilities, and earnout treatment

Paolo Ludovici and Marlinda Gianfrate of Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici discuss the latest developments in the OECD International Compliance Assurance Programme and evaluate its role within the framework of tax certainty