International Updates
On December 10 2018, Portugal published Notice 144/2018 in the Official Gazette, announcing the new income tax treaty with Montenegro.
Under the 60-day rule in Cyprus, individuals are considered tax residents of Cyprus and benefit from the island's tax regime.
Russian legal entities that make capital gains from the sale of shares are eligible for a 0% tax rate, yet the criteria for satisfying this arrangement may not always be so simple.
Canada's Revenue Agency (CRA) confirmed in a recent technical interpretation (2017-071330117) that Canadian withholding tax can apply to the accrued (but unpaid) interest on a debt owed by a Canadian resident to a non-resident when the debt is assumed by another entity and such an assumption constitutes a "novation" of the debt obligation for purposes of the applicable commercial law.
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Sponsored by NeraThe combined effect of the globalisation of entrepreneurial responsibilities within multinationals and the OECD's BEPS initiative puts traditional one-sided transfer pricing (TP) methods under increased pressure. NERA Managing Director Dr Yves Hervé and Associate Director Philip de Homont show how transactional net margin method (TNMM)-type TP solutions can be made sustainable for the future.
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Sponsored by KPMG RussiaThe number of companies joining Russia's tax monitoring or 'horizontal monitoring' programmes is on the rise.
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Sponsored by PwC ChileThe tax authority under a formal and strict application of such criterion has rejected expenses that were perfectly reasonable from a business perspective.
