Complexity is driving governments, corporations and accounting firms to invest in tax technology, Brian Peccarelli of Thomson Reuters has told International Tax Review.
Börje Noring, tax auditor and national adviser at the large companies tax office of the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket), talks to International Tax Review about the agency’s plans for the year ahead, the challenges it faces, inter-jurisdictional cooperation, and why Sweden has such high compliance rates.
The UK tax authorities have accepted that their new plan for how dispute resolution should be managed should cover all kinds of cases and should be followed to the letter if they are to meet their compliance targets and reassure taxpayers that all would be treated fairly and equally.
Canada's biggest fund managers and insurance companies want the country to be included in the inter-governmental agreements that the US is looking to put in place to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).