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Mexico has established seven special economic zones (SEZs) via special decrees and regulations with several more to come. Raúl Morales Medrano, partner at Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa, discusses the main benefits for taxpayers wanting to operate within these areas.

In a previous article in this series, we described the necessity of rethinking transactional net margin method (TNMM) studies and enhancing them with economic analysis. NERA Economic Consulting Managing Director Yves Hervé and Associate Director Philip de Homont describe how economic adjustments can be used to improve the quality of benchmarking analyses.

On 28 August 2018, Decree 9.482 was published, enacting amendments to the protocol to the convention between Brazil and Argentina.

On September 12 2018, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker delivered his 2018 State of the European Union (EU) address at the European Parliament. Accompanying his speech were a number of more detailed policy documents, the most important of which was the Letter of Intent from Juncker and First VP Frans Timmermans to the presidents of the European Parliament and the Austrian EU Council presidency.

In June 2018, reforms intended to address BEPS became law in New Zealand with the enactment of the Taxation (Neutralising Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) Act 2018 (BEPS Act).

Serbia's Parliament adopted the Law on Amendments to the VAT Law on April 19 2018. The Law was published in the Official Gazette No. 30/2018 and came into force on July 1 2018, with the exception of certain provisions which will be applicable from January 1 2019.

The new rules concerning income tax on building regulations will enter into force on January 1 2019, with some relating to 2018.

The Ninth Circuit reversed, and then withdrew its reversal of, the Tax Court's unanimous 'reviewed by the court' decision in Altera Corp. v. Commissioner, 145 T.C. 91 (2015), and held in a 2-1 decision that Treas. Reg. § 1.482-7(d)(2), requiring related entities to share the cost of employee stock compensation (the 2003 Regulation) was a valid regulation.

On August 27 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced changes to the compliance assurance process (CAP) for future years. CAP is an IRS programme that allows select taxpayers to participate in advance resolution of issues with IRS personnel prior to filing their returns.