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There has been a seismic shift in global politics in recent years, affecting trade and investment and altering the tax landscape. Anjana Haines reviews the tax prospects in this new era with International Tax Review’s Leading Women in Tax.

An Italian priest, Donald Trump, Gareth Southgate and Malaysian customs officials are the subjects of this month's Tax Relief.

EY has turned heads with its acquisition of legal technology firm Riverview Law, and says it will “aggressively” recruit to expand its legal managed services offering. Is this a ground-breaking development, or part of an established trend?

The House Ways & Means Committee has embarked on an ambitious plan to rush a trio of tax bills through Congress.

It has been reported that by the end of September 2018, the Directorate General of Tax (DGT) will commence the automatic exchange of information (AEOI) through the common transmission system (CTS). There are five types of data that are expected to be exchanged within the AEOI framework: (i) identity of bank account holder; (ii) bank account number; (iii) identity of financial institution; (iv) bank account balance; and (v) income deriving from the bank account (interest). Effective implementation of the AEOI may increase tax revenue, especially in terms of income tax. The DGT is authorised to utilise the collected data to evaluate taxpayers' compliance with their taxation obligations, including reporting requirements such as the submission of annual tax returns.

The recent geopolitical situation in the Middle East has motivated a significant number of Asian high-net-worth individuals to consider moving westward towards European markets, contributing considerably to the development of so-called 'rich immigration'.

International Tax Review honoured the best firms across the Americas at a ceremony in New York on September 13 2018.

Tax incentives in Croatia for research and development (R&D) projects were granted between 2007 and 2014 based on Articles 111 a. to 111 f. of the Act on Scientific Activity and Higher Education. However, the European Union issued Commission Regulation (EU) No. 651/2014 in June 2014, concerning certain categories of state aid; this used significantly different terminology, definitions, and requirements, and rendered the abovementioned articles invalid. Croatian entrepreneurs found themselves in something of a vacuum for more than three years, awaiting a new legal framework for R&D incentives, as the relevant tax incentive had been abolished on January 1 2015. In July 2018, the Croatian Parliament adopted and published the Act on State Aid for Research and Development Projects, which the government had submitted in January 2018.

In general terms, inherence can be described as the relationship between the cost and the enterprise, where the cost has a specific relevance to the determination of income; this is a result of its connection not to a specific revenue, but rather to an activity potentially able to produce income. Based on this assumption, in order to consider a cost deductible (i.e. inherent), the taxpayer is required to demonstrate clearly the connection with the activity, providing the tax authority with "sufficient" documentation.

The EU VAT committee published guidelines (page 228) on April 26 2018 on the VAT treatment of cash pooling arrangements.