On 14 February 2024, the Philippines Department of Finance declared a refined proposal for a bill for simplifying passive income taxes. The bill entitled ‘Package 4 of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program (CTRP)’ is a measure recalibrated by

On 7 February 2024, the Philippines Department of Finance (DOF) published a release declaring that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will support the country’s tax collection strategy using digital technologies for a more efficient and aggressive

On 15 January 2024, the Philippines Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) published the Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 8-2024 of 15 January 2023, in which it clarified the imposition of the new 1% withholding tax for payments by online platforms to

On 29 December 2023, the Philippine News Agency (PNA) published a release declaring that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) had imposed a 1% withholding tax on online merchants with earnings amounting to more than PHP 500,000 annually. BIR

On 8 November 2023, the Philippines joined as a member of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base-Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Inclusive Framework. The Inclusive Framework on BEPS is

On 24 May 2023, the Bahraini Minister of Finance and National Economy, Mr. Shaikh Salman bin Khalifa Al-Khalifa announced in the parliament that Bahrain is planning to introduce corporate income tax in line with OECD's Pillar Two global minimum tax