International updates - May 2016

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International updates - May 2016

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The latest international updates from our correspondents around the world.

Albania: IMF requests amendments to Albanian property tax

Australia: Australian BEPS update pre-election

Brazil: Brazil’s Senate approves Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters

Canada: Federal Court of Appeal agrees with TDL on scope of Canadian interest deductibility purpose test

Chile: Change of scenery: Chilean tax assistance and transparency

China: China’s new VAT rates and rules across all industries

Croatia: Treaty analysis: Croatia-Luxembourg DTA enters into force

Cyprus: Recent developments in Cypriot IP taxation: Are you prepared?

EU: EU Commission proposes public CbCR

Germany: EGC rules German exception to change-in-ownership rule qualifies as unlawful state aid

India: Taxing digital transactions in India

Indonesia: Indonesia targeting cross-border and online transactions

Ireland: New Irish tax appeals system

Italy: Italian Revenue Agency issues guidelines on LBOs

Luxembourg: Luxembourg VAT: CJEU delivers important decision regarding real estate investment funds

Poland: Incoming reporting changes in Poland

Russia: Transfer pricing audits in Russia: Initial results and trends

Serbia: Treaty analysis: Serbia ratifies DTA with South Korea

South Korea: Tax Tribunal rules Korean tax authority had no basis to disregard the existence of domestic holding companies established to facilitate LBO

Spain: Spanish Supreme Court confirms that Brazilian ‘juros sobre o capital próprio’ can benefit from Spanish participation exemption regime

Switzerland: Swiss perspective: Standardised electronic format for the exchange of CbC reports released by the OECD

US Inbound: US proposes new debt-equity regulations regarding interest in a corporation

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US partner Matthew Chen was named as potentially the first overseas PwC staffer implicated in the tax leaks scandal, in a dramatic week for the ‘big four’ firm
PwC alleged it has suffered identifiable loss and damage arising out of a former partner's unauthorised use of confidential information; in other news, Forvis Mazars unveiled its next UK CEO
Luxembourg saw the highest increase in tax-to-GDP ratio out of OECD countries in 2023, according to the organisation’s new Revenue Statistics report
Ryan’s VAT practice leader for Europe tells ITR about promoting kindness, playing the violincello and why tax being boring is a ‘ridiculous’ idea
Technology is on the way to relieve tax advisers tired by onerous pillar two preparations, says Russell Gammon of Tax Systems
A high number of granted APAs demonstrates the Italian tax authorities' commitment to resolving TP issues proactively, experts say
Malta risks ceding tax revenues to jurisdictions that adopt the global minimum tax sooner, the IMF said
The UK and what has been dubbed its ‘second empire’ have been found to be responsible for 26% of all countries’ tax losses by the Tax Justice Network
Ireland offers more than just its competitive corporate tax environment but a reduction in the US rate under a Trump administration could affect the country, experts tell ITR
The ‘big four’ firm was originally prohibited from tendering for government work until December 1 due to its tax leaks scandal, but ongoing investigations into the matter have seen the date extended
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