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After 10 years of a flat personal income tax rate of 10% in the FYR Macedonia, the Ministry of Finance introduced a progressive personal taxation rate (Law on Personal Income Tax), effective January 1 2019. Aimed at the creation of a fairer tax system, the new provisions result in the following changes for companies doing business in the country.

With spending on research and development (R&D) and venture capital investment as a percentage of GDP among the highest in the world, Israel has entered 2019 as a leading technology country.

On 28 December 2018, the Italian government published Legislative Decree No. 142, transposing the European Union's Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive (2016/1164) into Italian legislation. The new set of provisions will be effective from the fiscal year following December 31 2018. The decree will aim to tackle tax avoidance practices related to interest deduction, exit tax, rules on foreign controlled companies, a definition of financial intermediaries, and hybrid mismatches, all of which are explored below.

The mere holding of a Spanish residential property by a non-tax resident gives rise to tax on an annual basis, regardless of whether the property is held directly by the individual or through a corporate structure.

This article describes the challenges that the digital transformation of the economy poses for transfer pricing. In the next article of the series, it will show how these interdependencies can be translated into new transfer pricing models.

Norway's Parliament passed legislative changes for the 2019 budget on December 20 2018, seeing notable changes to inbound investments, particularly a reduced corporate income tax (CIT) rate and stricter interest limitation rules (ILR).

Delhi High Court (HC) has confirmed the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal's decision that various overseas entities of the GE Group had a fixed place, permanent establishment (PE), and a dependent agent PE in India.

The case at hand concerned an appeal of an individual, who is a tax resident of the UK, who requested annulment of the special solidarity tax assessment imposed by the Greek tax authorities on income realised in the 2015 tax year

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down an important judgment on the doctrine of simulation, or substance over form, on November 9 2018, putting to rest some significant confusion created by an earlier judgment of the Gauteng Tax Court.