Vietnam: Government issues decree regulating new corporate income tax law
The Government of Vietnam has issued Decree No. 320/2025/ND-CP on 15 December 2025, regulating the implementation of the Law on Corporate Income Tax 2025 (Law No. 67/2025/QH15), which entered into force on 1 October 2025. The Decree relates to
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Kenya: Tax tribunal rules pre-2025 losses unaffected by new carryforward limit
Kenya’s Tax Appeals Tribunal delivered its decision in Patel v Commissioner for Legal Services & Board Co-ordination Services on 28 November 2025, which addresses how the loss carryforward restriction introduced under the Finance Act 2025
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Malaysia enacts key measures under 2026 budget
Malaysia gazetted the Finance Act 2025 and the Measures for the Collection, Administration and Enforcement of Tax Act 2025 on 31 December 2025. These laws give effect to selected measures announced in the 2026 Budget and additional tax
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Brazil: RFB updates rules on credit losses, interest on equity
Brazil’s tax authority, the Federal Revenue Service (RFB) announced that it updated Normative Instruction RFB No. 1,700/2017 on 4 December 2025 to clarify the tax treatment of credit losses and interest on equity (JCP). The changes respond to
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Argentina: ARCA further extends deadline for settling tax debts from miscalculated losses
Argentina’s tax authority (ARCA) has issued General Resolution 5788/2025 on 13 November 2025, extending the deadline for taxpayers to access the payment plan facility for outstanding tax debts arising from miscalculated tax losses. Introduced
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Zambia: MoF presents 2026 budget, promotes corporate investments in key sectors
Zambia’s Ministry of Finance and National Planning delivered the 2026 Budget Speech to the National Assembly on 26 September 2025, announcing a series of revenue measures aimed at strengthening domestic resource mobilisation, supporting small
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Netherlands revises business merger decree, defines tax and loss carry-forward rules
Decree 2025-219643 addresses business mergers, clarifies the tax treatment of cooperatives, updates loss carry-forward rules, and revises approval procedures. The Netherlands State Secretary for Finance published Decree 2025-219643 of 21 August
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Kenya: KRA imposes new cap on carryforward of prior losses
The ruling limits loss carryforwards, applying to losses from 1 July 2025 onward and retrospectively disallowing deductions for losses before the 2020 income year. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) issued a private ruling on 1 September 2025
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New Zealand: IR consults PPP loss carry-forward rules
The consultation is set to conclude on 19 September 2025. New Zealand’s Inland Revenue (IR) has initiated a public consultation on the draft Income tax – Public private partnership projects and business continuity test for losses PUB00521 on
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Argentina extends payment scheme for tax debts from miscalculated losses
The updated plan introduces fines in the payment plan, reduces the initial advance payment to 2% of the total tax debt, and extends the application deadline to 31 October 2025. Argentina’s tax authority (ARCA) has renewed the payment plan
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Italy implements emergency tax revisions on CFC, hybrid mismatch penalty rules
Urgent tax measures include revising the domestic CFC rules, tax loss carry-forward provisions, and the penalty protection regime for hybrid mismatch assessments. Italy’s parliament converted Law Decree No. 84 of 17 June 2025 into law with
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Italy gazettes Decree regulating exemption from loss carry-forward restrictions for intra-group restructurings
Italy has implemented an exemption from tax loss carry-forward restrictions for intra-group restructurings under Article 177-ter of the Income Tax Code, effective from 31 December 2024. Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance has published the
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Kenya repeals digital assets tax, expands economic presence tax under Finance Act 2025
The Finance Act 2025 introduces a 10% excise duty on virtual asset transaction fees, expanded SEP tax, a 5-year loss carry forward limit, AMT, and new APA guidelines. Kenya’s President William Ruto signed the Finance Act 2025 into law on 26
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Tanzania enacts 2025-26 budget measures, includes new transfer pricing penalty
The measures will apply from 1 July 2025, unless otherwise specified. Tanzania's Finance Act 2025 was enacted on 30 June 2025, implementing tax measures from the 2025-26 Budget Speech with some adjustments to the initially announced
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Lithuania: Parliament approves loss carryforward clarification as part of tax reform package
Lithuania’s parliament has approved changes to loss carryforward rules, capping annual use at 70% of taxable income from 2026, with exceptions for certain low-rate taxpayers, as part of a broader tax reform to support the Defence Fund. The
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Italy amends CFC rules, tax loss carry-forward provisions
The adopted tax measures include updates to controlled foreign company (CFC) rules and tax loss carry-forward provisions. Italy has published Decree No. 84 of 17 June 2025 in Official Gazette No. 138 on 17 June 2025, introducing changes to the
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Tanzania presents 2025-26 budget, introduces withholding tax and higher AMT
The budget speech highlighted key fiscal changes, which included a new withholding tax, higher alternative minimum tax, and VAT adjustments. Tanzania's Minister of Finance, Mwigulu Nchemba, has presented the 2025-26 Budget Speech to parliament on
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Singapore: IRAS updates e-tax guide on foreign asset disposal gains
IRAS revises tax rules for foreign asset sales—gains may be taxable if transactions lack economic substance in Singapore, effective 1 January 2024. The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) published an updated e-Tax Guide Income Tax:
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