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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.

Uber faces a big question over its tax responsibilities Uber could be forced to pay millions of pounds in indirect tax if the UK High Court decides that the company should be charging VAT on its services. HMRC could also face questions as to why it did not take action at the first opportunity.

Country-by-country reporting (CbCR) deadlines are approaching and MNEs are carefully preparing the information and diligence behind the numbers. CbCR brings us to the next phase and Keith Brockman asks how reputational risk will be questioned by the public (if disclosed) and defended or ignored by MNEs and tax administrations.

Rio Tinto has called on Australia and the US to cut their corporate tax rates to become more attractive investment locations, and it seems that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is listening to big businesses despite strong opposition. Will the US follow?

Amazon’s win reinforces the tax treatment of transfer pricing methods Amazon has triumphed over the US tax authority after the US Tax Court ruled in favour of the online retailer in a tax dispute involving Amazon's use of a Luxembourg subsidiary for its European operations and transfer pricing arrangements.

Freddy Karyadi Nina Cornelia Santoso In preparation for the first exchange of information (EOI) by September 2018, the Indonesian government has enacted several implementing regulations, despite the ongoing discussions to issue a Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Peraturan Pemerintah Pengganti Undang-undang, or Perppu) as the legal basis for EOI in Indonesia. The said Perppu is currently being proposed to the President and is expected to be signed in the near future. Upon its enactment, the Perppu shall become effective, despite the initial plan to implement the first EOI by 2018. Subsequently, the Indonesian tax authority may immediately access both foreign or local customer information data from banking, capital market, insurance, and other financial sectors.

Sweden plans to introduce new rules on the taxation of commercial real estate that may complicate tax credits for foreign taxpayers and potentially result in double taxation. Richard Hedin Thyr, tax partner, and Hussein Abdali, tax adviser, at Skeppsbron Skatt, Taxand Sweden, analyse what these proposals could mean.

Khoonming Ho Lewis Lu Key clarifications were made to China's transfer pricing (TP) guidance recently. This included both the finalisation of guidance "localising" the OECD's BEPS TP work for China and clarifications on TP documentation and reporting requirements.

Panayiotis Diallinas Moldova has recently clarified certain requirements relating to the taxation of dividends distributed during the period 2008-15 to residents of Bulgaria, in the context of the applicable double tax treaty concluded between the two countries in 1998.

On March 30, International Tax Review hosted its Indirect Tax Forum at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, in association with WTS. The day was a great success, with open dialogue from in-house tax professionals, tax advisers and campaigners. Here, conference host Joe Stanley-Smith presents some of the highlights from the day.