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One of the key benefits of the Dutch tax system is the participation exemption regime, whereby benefits derived by Dutch corporate taxpayers from a qualifying shareholding (i.e. dividends, capital gains, and foreign exchange results) are fully exempt from Dutch corporate income tax (25%). This beneficial treatment of the participation exemption regime also applies to earn-out payments whereby the deferred instalment payments depend upon the performance of the company being sold.

During 2017 and 2018, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto issued diverse decrees designating the following Mexican regions (shown in the map below) as special economic zones (SEZs).

Vieira de Almeida's Tiago Marreiros Moreir and João Riscado Rapoula explore the new double taxation agreement between Portugal and Angola and what it could mean for companies doing business in the respective countries.

Machado Associados's Ricardo Marletti Debatin da Silveira and Rogério Gaspari Coelho look at Brazil's Route 2030 Programme and how it may affect the country’s automotive sector.

KPMG’s Khoonming Ho and Lewis Lu look at what the Year of the Pig is set to bring to the Chinese tax landscape.

The Irish Minister for Finance published a report entitled Ireland’s Corporation Tax Roadmap on September 5 2018.

Mexico’s tax system lacks clarity on the status of cryptocurrencies. Treating them as either property or currency each have their own specific implications, writes Omar Zuñiga, partner, and Eduardo Brandt, senior associate, at Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez.

In July 2018, transfer pricing (TP) legislation – Inland Revenue (Amendment) (No 6) Bill 2017 (BEPS Bill) – was passed in Hong Kong. This represents one of the biggest changes to Hong Kong tax in recent years. Many of the provisions within the BEPS Bill will have retrospective effect from the year of assessment 2018/19. The notable amendments to the initial proposal are:

On June 21 2018, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) released updated guidelines on the corporate residency test in Taxation Ruling TR 2018/5 and Draft Practical Compliance Guidelines PCG 2018/D3.