Iceland publishes CIT, VAT and PIT brackets for 2025
Iceland Revenue and Customs has published the key tax figures and percentages for 2025, including updates on Corporate Income Tax, Value Added Tax and Personal Income Tax. The updated rates are applicable starting 1 January 2025. Corporate
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Australia announces GIC, SIC rates for Q3 2024-25
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) announced the general interest charge (GIC) rates and shortfall interest charge (SIC) rates for the third quarter of the 2024-25 income year on 9 December 2024. For the quarter commencing on 1 January 2025,
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Luxembourg enacts law reducing CIT rate
Luxembourg has enacted the bill on the Corporate Income Tax (CIT) rate reduction on 20 December 2024. The law was published in Official Gazette No. A 589 on 24 December 2024. Earlier, the Parliament passed legislation that introduced
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US: Louisiana adopts flat income tax rates, ends corporation franchise tax
The Governor of Louisiana signed multiple tax reform bills into law on 4 December 2024, marking a significant tax reform in the state. The state is determined to eliminate uncompetitive taxes like the franchise and inventory taxes, and broaden tax
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Costa Rica announced 2025 corporate tax brackets, rates
Costa Rica's Ministry of Finance has published Executive Decree No. 44772-H in the Official Gazette on 3 December 2024, establishing the corporate and individual income tax brackets and rates for the 2025 fiscal year. Executive Decree No. 44772-H
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Ukraine raises tax on banks, financial institutions
Ukraine has signed Law 4015-IX (The Law on Amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine and Other Laws of Ukraine to Ensure the Balance of Budget Revenues during Martial Law) into law on 28 November 2024. One key provision of this new law is the increased
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UK: House of Commons debates Finance Bill 2024-25
UK’s Finance Bill 2024-25, which is based on the Autumn Budget 2024, underwent its second reading debate in the House of Commons on 27 November 2024. This followed its initial introduction and first reading on 6 November 2024. The bill passed
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US: Congressional Research Service updates report on global intangible low-taxed income
The US Congressional Research Service (CRS) has released an updated report (IF 11943) addressing proposed changes to the taxation of global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) on 25 November 2024. The updates explain that the proposed changes
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Guatemala proposes simplified tax plans for handicrafts, agriculture
Guatemala’s Congress has passed Decree 31-2024, which includes “The Law for the Integration of the Primary and Agricultural Sector,” on 19 November 2024. This proposal shall establish two streamlined special tax regimes: The production and
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Poland announces 2025 investment incentives, thresholds for reduced corporate tax and VAT
Poland has announced new thresholds for various tax regimes for small taxpayers in 2025. These include a reduced corporate tax rate, an investment incentive deduction, a simplified VAT regime, and a flat-rate tax. The new thresholds for reduced
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Estonia proposes 2% corporate tax for resident firms, permanent establishments
In September 2024, Estonia's Ministry of Finance announced a temporary 2% corporate tax rate for tax resident companies and permanent establishments of non-resident companies. The draft bill is undergoing the second of three readings in the
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The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced in release IR-2024-290 on 18 November 2024 that interest rates will decrease for the calendar quarter beginning 1 January 2025. For individuals, the rate for overpayments and underpayments will be
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Ireland: Lower House of Parliament passes Finance Bill 2024
The Irish lower house of parliament approved the Finance Bill 2024, which outlines major tax measures from Budget 2025 on Wednesday, 5 November 2024. Finance Bill 2024, which runs to 118 sections and over 200 pages, implements the taxation as
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Slovak Republic issues guidance on reintroduced minimum tax
The Slovak Republic Financial Administration released Document No. 13/PO/2024/IM, offering guidance on paying minimum tax or tax licences on 28 October 2024. The Slovak Republic has reinstated the obligation for companies to pay a minimum tax
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Hong Kong lowers tax reserve certificate interest
The Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department announced on 1 November 2024 that starting from 4 November 2024, the new annual rate of interest payable on Tax Reserve Certificates will be 0.7167% against the current rate of 0.8000%, i.e., the new rate
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Netherlands clarifies minimum tax to have little effect on incentives, cautions on new tax credits
The Netherlands State Secretary for Finance, in a letter to the parliament, stated that the global minimum tax would have limited effects on current tax incentives but highlighted that the newly introduced tax credits under Pillar Two could pose
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Slovak Republic gazettes bill amending corporate tax and VAT, and bill introducing financial transaction tax
The Slovak Republic has gazetted the bill that amends various tax laws, including corporate tax and VAT rate changes, and the bill enacting the financial transaction tax. The bills are aimed at improving the country’s public finances. The
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Portugal proposes several VAT measures in draft state budget law 2025
Portugal released the state budget law for 2025 (Law No. 26/XVI/1) on 10 October 2024, proposing various VAT measures. The draft Budget Law for 2025 proposes reduced corporate tax rates for companies and SMEs and revised personal income tax rates,
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