India: Approves higher taxes and penalties on black money bill

01 December, 2016

The lower house of Parliament (Lok Sabha) passed the Taxation Laws (Second Amendment) Bill 2016 (the Bill) on 29 November 2016, which aims to impose a higher tax rate and more stringent penalty provisions in respect of black money. The overview of

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UK: HMRC Seeks Feedback on Tax Penalties

02 February, 2015

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is asking for views on how it might strengthen the effectiveness of its penalties regime. A discussion document published today is seeking views by 11 May about potential improvements to how HMRC applies penalties for

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Spain plans to impose penalty on VAT fraud

29 September, 2014

In order to reduce rising fraud, Spain is planning to introduce a range of penalty measures on VAT in 2015. These include; EU Rapid Mechanism is to be activated to introduce the reverse charge on the domestic supplies of phones, games, tablets and

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Romania: The Ministry of Finance published new tax provision

31 August, 2014

The Ministry of Finance published drafts proposal of the Tax Code and the Fiscal Procedures Code, on 30 June 2014. Under draft proposals currently under discussion the penalty for an under declaration of profits would be 10% of the additional amount

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Germany strengthens VAT penalties

18 May, 2014

Germany is to impose stronger value added tax (VAT) penalties in relation to cases where the taxpayer has voluntarily disclosed incorrect amounts on the return. Companies detecting and correcting errors in their VAT returns has tended to be treated

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Russia: Clarification regarding tax treatment

23 February, 2014

On 18 December 2013 the Russian Ministry of Finance (MoF) published Letter No. 03-08-05/55702, clarifying the tax treatment of contractual penalties paid by a Russian company to a Ukrainian company for violation of the contractual terms. According

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