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The Albanian Parliament on July 9 2018 approved a draft law submitted by the Council of Ministers that proposed several changes to income tax.

The head of Egypt's tax authority (ETA) Emad Sami said on August 26 2018 that an amendment to the Income Tax Act had been drafted to allow the finance minister to access corporate bank accounts to help combat tax evasion.

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.