Consistency has displaced complexity and predictability as the most important tax factor driving investment decisions in Asia-Pacific. Reputational risk and tax planning, as well as BEPS, also featured as important considerations for respondents to a survey of tax executives.
It is not a global information reporting network yet, but the US Treasury and Internal Revenue Service’s announcement this week that increases the number of intergovernmental agreements for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) from 26 to 48 in one go brings that idea much closer.
The decision of the Delhi Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) in the Bharti Airtel case should encourage other Indian taxpayers to apply commercial and transfer pricing principles to agreements concerning corporate guarantees and capital contributions to associated enterprises in India, practitioners have said.
Like other multilateral organisations, such as the IMF and the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has deepened its role in helping to build capacity in tax administrations and to train officials. Satoru Araki, a public management specialist at the ADB, tells International Tax Review how his organisation does it.
