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Tax technologists increasingly important but hard to find for MNEs

Demand for tax technologists is rising in the post-BEPS environment, according to tax and technology leaders, as tax departments find it increasingly important to prepare systems for new developments coming from tax authorities.

Danish Mehboob, March 21 2019

Montenegro: Montenegro-Portugal income tax treaty enters into force

On December 10 2018, Portugal published Notice 144/2018 in the Official Gazette, announcing the new income tax treaty with Montenegro.

Bojana Minic, March 21 2019

Brexit planning provokes considerable tax recruitment

Companies are hiring tax professionals to become the ‘Head of Brexit Tax’ as they look to deal with the uncertainty. Ian Barker, UK director of professional services at Morgan McKinley highlights the trends across the UK tax recruitment sphere and what is coming next.

March 21 2019

Government and customers – the driving force of digitisation

Kim Hau, senior proposition manager for ONESOURCE Indirect Tax at Thomson Reuters, explains why corporate indirect tax teams must shift their approach from ‘surviving’ the compliance cycle to a more proactive and considered way of working.

March 21 2019

Americas: Increasing corporate cash flows drive deal-making across the Americas

Tax professionals across the Americas have a positive outlook on deal-making activity for the first half of 2019 as multinationals are ‘flush with cash’ after the repatriation of funds under provisions in the 2017 US tax reform, writes Danish Mehboob.

Danish Mehboob, March 21 2019

Asia-Pacific: Companies play defence with transactions in APAC

The need to align cross-border transactions with commercial substance to gain tax certainty and avoid litigation is driving deal-making across the Asia Pacific region. Alexander Hartley explains how the M&A tax strategies of Asian companies intersect with trade disputes, political volatility and market nervousness.

Alexander Hartley, March 21 2019

Technology’s impact on the tax outsourcing debate

Technology and regulatory changes are encouraging heads of tax to revisit their operating models to determine the most effective way to deliver their objectives, writes Sandy Markwick, head of the Tax Director Network at Winmark.

Sandy Markwick, March 21 2019

Tax Relief

Because tax doesn’t have to be taxing. A less-than-serious look back at some of the quirkier tax stories from the past month.

March 21 2019

Exclusive: US state drags Amazon to court on platform sales tax liability

South Carolina’s handling of the case could be crucial for platform taxation in the US A judge will decide whether Amazon acted as a seller in a case against the US state of South Carolina, potentially making it liable for millions of dollars in back taxes.

Alexander Hartley, March 21 2019

Japan to make MNE reorganisations easier with tax break

The freedom to reorganise should be calming for Japanese companies The Japanese government has announced changes that will give companies more flexibility in tax structuring, lessening the sizeable tax burden on downstream mergers and making triangular reorganisations easier.

Joseph Stanley-Smith, March 21 2019

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