Italy: Parliament Approves 2018 Budget Law
The Italian Parliament approved the Budget Law on 23rd December 2017 and it will come into force on 1st January 2018. The law prolongs the extra-amortization regime for entities investing in new assets between 1st January 2018 and 31st January 2018
See MoreBelgium: Corporate tax reform beginning from 2020
On 29 December 2017, The Belgian corporate tax reform law was published in the official gazette contains measures that will be effective as from tax periods beginning from 1 January 2020. Corporate income tax rate reduction The corporate income tax
See MoreCroatia: Closing date of CbC report submission extends for first year
A notice regarding the submission of Country-by-Country (CbC) reports has been announced on 16 January 2017 by the Tax Administration. The authority announced that CbC reports submission deadline for the 2016 reporting fiscal year was extended to
See MoreSenegal approves tax treaty agreement with Luxembourg
The Senegalese Council of Ministers approved the pending income and capital tax agreement with Luxembourg on 17 January 2018. The treaty was signed on 10 February 2016. Luxembourg ratified the agreement on 23 December 2016. It will enter into force
See MoreUS: Government signs joint statement on exchange of country-by-country tax reports with France
On January 12, the IRS announced on its website that the US and French competent authorities would like to sign a joint statement to spontaneously exchange CbC reports submitted by their respective taxpayers. The Competent Authorities desire to
See MoreSweden publishes CbC reporting threshold rules
The Swedish Tax Agency published a guidance on companies' country-by-country reporting (CbC) obligations with respect to short and extended tax years, and company divestments and restructurings on 15 January 2018. The guidance provides following
See MoreGreece: Tax Authority publishes a Circular POL.1209/2017 on tax evasion
The Independent Public Revenue Authority has issued the Circular POL.1209/2017 on December 20, 2017. With the help of POL 1209/2017, the Authority gives supplementary instructions on the submission of complaints about tax evasion fraud in income
See MoreEU Finance Ministers to review tax haven blacklist
It is reported that the EU Economic and Finance Ministers (ECOFIN) will at their meeting on 23 January 2018 remove some countries from the EU’s blacklist of tax havens following commitments made by the countries to improve their tax policy. It has
See MorePortugal: Requirements for the preparation and exchange of Country-by-Country Reports published
On 21 December 2017, Portuguese Orders number 383-A/ 2017 and 383-B/2017 were published in the Official Gazette. Order number 383-A/2017 approved form 55 containing the CbC report. Form 55 must be submitted electronically on an annual basis and
See MoreSpain amends the CbC reporting rules to align with EU Directive
On 30 December 2017, Royal Decree 1074/2017 amending the corporate tax rules and other provisions was published in the Official Journal. Royal Decree 1074/2017 amends, among other things, the Spanish CbCR rules in order to better align them with EU
See MoreItaly: Approves budget Law for 2018
The Italian Budget Law for 2018 (Law no. 205 of 27 December 2017) published on 29 December 2017 and entered into force on 1 January 2018. Some of its most significant corporate tax measures are summarized below: Dividends: Dividends from
See MoreSpain: Council of Ministers approves the amendment of several tax regulations
On 29 December 2019, the Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree-Law to extend and approve various tax measures and other urgent measures on social issues, which provides for the coefficients to update cadastral values for 2018. The Decree
See MoreLithuania approves the Budget for 2018
On 5 December 2017, Lithuania has adopted the Budget measures for 2018. The most important changes to the Law on corporate income tax are summarized below: An increase in the maximum credit for the investment project incentive from 50% to 100% of
See MoreFinland raises tax on alcoholic beverages
Finnish taxes on alcoholic beverages increased at the beginning of 2018 after parliamentary vote last month. The Ministry of Finance confirmed that taxes on alcoholic beverages would increase by an average of 10 percent, increasing retail prices by
See MoreItaly: Approval of 2018 Budget Bill including new tax on digital services
The main agenda of this Bill being approved by the Italian Senate was to offset differences on tax on digital services so that it can target large multinational companies like Facebook, Apple and Google providing digital services in Italy. Italy has
See MoreHungary: Deadlines of Country-by-Country reporting and notification requirements
Issues have been generating recently on filling Hungary’s CbC reporting notification on the 17T201T form. A Hungarian resident entity is not required to file the CbC notification requirement until or unless the multi-national group has a
See MoreFrance: US Multinational Groups and the French Country-by-Country reports
The United States hasn’t been yet included in the French Ministerial Order consisting of the list of states for CbCR purposes. Discussions on the authority agreement between France and USA are still going on, which has a bit of suspense running
See MoreItaly: Italian Revenue Agency taking implementing procedures for Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR)
New law has been introduced by the Italian Revenue Agency for the execution of CbCR concerning the medium of presentation of the reports in Italy which is in the same radar with the OECD recommendations and the EU Directions. It is mainly implied on
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