Belgium updates transfer pricing documentation rules
Belgium published the Royal Decree of 7 December 2025 in the Official Gazette on 19 December 2025, which repeals the previous Royal Decree of 16 June 2024 concerning transfer pricing documentation. Under the new decree, taxpayers are no longer
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World Bank: How behavioural science can help with tax compliance
A World Bank blog by J. Karver published on 9 October 2025 looked at ways in which behavioural science can assist tax compliance. The author points out that the level of tax compliance is not just a case of following rules but is shaped by the
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World Bank: Impact of tax and spending measures on women
A World Bank policy research working paper with the title Mapping the Gender Dimension in Taxation and Budgeting: A Cross-Country Study of Laws, Policies and Practices was published on 4 December 2025. The research paper, written by H. Niesten, L
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World Bank: Impact of non-tariff measures on global trade
A World Bank research paper with the title It’s Not (Just) the Tariffs: Rethinking Non-Tariff Measures in a Fragmented Global Economy, by D. Taglioni and H. Kee, was published on 22 October 2025. The research paper looks at the impact of
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World Bank: Data-driven policies can transform tax compliance
An event held at the World Bank Group Office in Rome from 1 to 5 December 2025 was attended by experts from the World Bank, the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and some Italian institutions. The participants examined the effect of data-driven risk
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Korea (Rep.) issues 2025 MAP guidelines for international tax disputes
Korea (Rep.)’s National Tax Service (NTS) on 18 December 2025 published online the 2025 Guidelines for Requesting Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) Assistance, providing a comprehensive framework for resolving international tax disputes with treaty
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Italy gazettes decree transposing DAC8 crypto-asset reporting, exchange of data
Italy has published Legislative Decree No. 194/2025 in the Official Gazette No. 296 of 22 December 2025, which implements the Amending Directive to the 2011 Directive on Administrative Cooperation (2023/2226) (DAC8). The measure implements the
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Taiwan: MoF extends electric vehicle tax exemption until 2030
Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) states that in order to enhance the willingness of consumers to purchase completely electric-operated automobiles or motorcycles , the Legislative Yuan passed on its third reading the draft of the amendment to
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Taiwan: Taipei Tax Bureau clarifies certain share, capital contribution transactions to be taxed as real estate deals
Taiwan’s The Taipei National Taxation Bureau of the Ministry of Finance stated that, in order to prevent individuals and profit-making enterprises from effectively transferring the real estate and land within China of the invested profit-making
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Lithuania: VMI updates VAT guidance for financial services ahead of 2026 changes
Lithuania’s State Tax Inspectorate (VMI) has issued updated guidance on Article 28 of the Law on VAT, clarifying the application of VAT exemptions for financial services. The revisions introduce a new “technical/administrative services”
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Hong Kong: IRD adjusts interest on tax reserve certificates
The Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department (IRD) announced, on 24 December 2025, that starting from 5 January 2026, the new annual rate of interest payable on Tax Reserve Certificates will be 0.2417% against the current rate of 0.2583%, i.e. the new
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OECD updates GIR MCAA signatories list
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published an updated list of signatories, including their signing dates, to the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on the Exchange of Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE)
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Israel: MoF to impose additional 15% tax on banks’ excess profits, approves higher tax-free import threshold
Israel’s Ministry of Finance has proposed a temporary tax on banks’ excess profits and approved a higher tax-free import threshold in an announcement on 23 December 2025. The initiative is aimed at easing pressure on consumers but was
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Italy announces statutory interest rate for 2026
Italy has published the Decree of 10 December 2025 in the Official Gazette, which sets a 1.6% statutory (legal) interest rate (down from 2.0%) with effect from 1 January 2026. The statutory interest rate applies to the taxation of interest income
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UK: Government scales back farm inheritance tax
The UK government announced on Tuesday, 23 December 2025, that it will ease its planned inheritance tax on farms, following months of nationwide protests since the 2024 announcement. From April, the threshold for individual inheritance tax relief
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Taiwan: Tax Authority updates rules for real estate sales by for-profit enterprises
Taiwan’s Central Area National Taxation Bureau of the Ministry of Finance has reminded for-profit enterprises that, from 1 July 2021, sales of real estate purchased after 1 January 2016 are subject to the Integrated Housing and Land Tax
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Belgium: Parliament passes tax bill on withholding refunds, bank taxes
Belgium’s parliament passed legislation on 18 December 2025, proposed by multiple Members of Parliament, to introduce changes to the refund of withholding tax and to raise the tax on credit institutions. The legislation aims to update the 1992
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Germany: Bundesrat approves Pillar 2 tax amendments, DAC 9 information exchange
Germany ’s Federal Council (Bundesrat) approved a bill (Gesetz zur Anpassung des Mindeststeuergesetzes und zur Umsetzung weiterer Maßnahmen) on 19 December 2025 amending the country’s Pillar 2 minimum taxation framework. The bill updates the
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