Italy- Tax Court Renders Decision on “Best Method” Rule

01 February, 2012

Recently Italy’s Regional Tax Court of Lazio has given an important decision regarding the selection of methods for determining inter-company prices. An Italian company acting as toll manufacturer on behalf of a related foreign company, set

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Settlement of Small Tax Debts by 120,000 Italians

29 December, 2011

120,000 taxpayers have taken the opportunity to settle their small tax debts with the Revenue Agency In accordance with the tax administration provisions of the Italian budget approved in July 2011. From July, by immediately paying the tax due,

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“Save Italy” Budget is approved

27 December, 2011

The Italian government has finally approved the "Save Italy" budget with few modifications, except for those previously agreed by the government. Despite continued opposition from different groups, especially, the trade union to the pension reforms

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An attempt of rapprochement on tax between Italy and Switzerland

19 September, 2011

To unblock the stalled negotiations for a double taxation agreement (DTA) between Italy and Switzerland, an attempt has been made, during a meeting organised by the Italian Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee. In fact, there has been a

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Budget bill is changed again in Italy

09 September, 2011

Instead of the previous 5% tax to be levied on annual personal incomes higher than EUR90,000 (USD126,300),  now people have to pay 10% on annual incomes over EUR150,000, an additional rate of 3% will now be applied on all personal incomes over

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Italy: VAT rate increases

08 September, 2011

The Italian Parliament has agreed to an emergency 1% rise of VAT from 17 September 2011. Though the rise was originally submitted in June 2011, and was scheduled for January 2014. But due to instability in the financial market, the government took

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Italian business against VAT rate hikes

06 July, 2011

Rete Imprese Italia, representing artisans, traders, the tourist sector and other services in Italy, has emphasized to stop penalizing consumer spending which is obvious in the Italian government’s proposed three-year tax reforms framework.

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