International Tax

Breaking VAT news from RSM's experts around the world, including updates from  the European Union, United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands and the United States.

Breaking VAT news from RSM's experts around the world, including updates from Portugal, Norway, UK, Italy, Australia, Canada, South Africa and Malaysia.

Breaking VAT news from around the world, including updates from the European Union, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, Switzerland and Hungary.

When it comes to tax affairs, the biggest fear among clients is of committing an offence by accident. This article outlines a number of key tax areas to watch out for, including BEPS, US tax reform and the Paradise Papers. 

Breaking VAT news from around the world, including updates from the European Union, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Ireland, Norway and the Gulf Cooperation Council.

A guest blog by Rob Mander, International Tax Services, RSM . The international tax systems of the last decade haven’t kept up with the changing nature and pace of multinational groups of companies. In a world where so much business is conducted across borders, it is important that legislation and, more specifically, tax authorities have sufficient sight of the global allocation of income within multinational organisations.

Germany finds itself in an unusual scenario in handling the proposed European Common Consolidated Tax Base (CCTB). Whilst there is unity amongst most of the country’s political parties, the proposed CCTB is in opposition to the preference of German business and industry, which usually finds representation in one of the parties. Harmonising the exchange of information between European tax authorities on the one hand, whilst relieving the pressure on the German Mittelstand on the other by promising not to raise taxes, appears to be incompatible.

RSM New Zealand have joined the family of sponsors to support this month’s MCKAYSON New Zealand Women’s Open.

Breaking VAT news from around the world, including updates from the Netherlands, Hungary, Switzerland, US and Australia. 

Tax complexity is a challenge that is particularly acute for middle market businesses who lack the scale to invest in large compliance teams, but have the agility to adapt more quickly than large corporates. We spoke to RSM experts in Australia, Brazil, UK, and US to ask how middle market businesses can untangle this mess.

Breaking news from the RSM Indirect Tax Group, including updates from the GCC, EU, Netherlands, Hungary and China.

BEPS is like a puzzle. At least, it is puzzling when you stop and think about how it’s all going to come together. There have been some significant developments around BEPS over the past few weeks. A guest blog by Rebecca Reading, RSM UK.

RSM has teamed up with Euromoney to produce a survey, helping to reveal the views of global tax decision-makers from around the world regarding BEPS, including CFOs, Heads of Tax, Corporate Treasurers and other C-suite executives from internationally active enterprises.

Tax avoidance by large businesses is a topic that continues to attract attention, with governments keen to state that they are tough on those that abuse the rules.

A thought-leadership paper analysing the future evolution of the tax landscape, benchmarked against tax trends of the last 50 years. It includes the opinions of over 50 RSM tax leaders from around the world.  

Case study details   Client: One of the largest providers of warehousing services in the United States, which has 32m sq. feet of warehousing Sector: 3PL (third-party logistics) Requirement: Accounting assistance, audit & tax work

Case study details   Client: A global manufacturer and distributor, with over 55,000 products Sector: Biomedical and life sciences Requirement: Statutory audit, tax compliance and advisory. Region: Asia Pacific and North America

Non-US businesses face a variety of complex tax burdens when they choose to do business in the United States. A number of federal and state compliance and substantive tax obligations make doing business in the US potentially quite challenging, especially in California.

Non-US businesses face a variety of complex tax burdens when they choose to do business in the United States. A number of federal and state compliance and substantive tax obligations make doing business in the US potentially quite challenging, especially in California. However, many tax incentives exist that can mitigate the effect of some of these burdens.

If I had to summarise 2014 in one sentence, based on the economic and law-enforcement aspects, I would say that first of all, this year represents a ‘step up’ in the war that the Israel Tax Authority (ITA) leads to reduce the ‘black capital’ (unreported capital) phenomenon in an attempt to increase the circle of those obligated to submit financial statements.

Permanent establishment (PE) is a common term in international tax. The concept is very common in advice concerning cross-border business expansion. Many discussions between advisers and their clients will begin with a question along the following lines: “Do these activities to be undertaken create a PE risk?”

With technology making the world a smaller place, it is understandable that large corporations expand their businesses into multiple jurisdictions as they continue to grow. However, setting up a new operation for an existing business in a foreign jurisdiction is not necessarily an easy task.

The Electronic Road Transportation Control System (EKAER) will help the tax authority in tracking every product transported in Hungary. The purpose of the system is to ensure no goods are put into circulation in Hungary that have not been previously reported to the Hungarian Tax and Customs Authority.

On 10 October 2014, Mexico’s federal tax authority, the Servicio de Administracion Tributaria (SAT), published a package of miscellaneous tax rules (the “October 10 Rules”) that included guidance on various Mexican tax provisions.

In 2014, Hong Kong signed seven Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEAs) with the US and six Nordic jurisdictions. The signing of the TIEAs marks a new era of Exchange of Information (EOI) in Hong Kong.

The majority of tax advisers expect corporate tax rates to remain relatively unchanged over the next three years, according to research by RSM, the seventh largest global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms. This is in spite of global tax reform led by the OECD aimed at targeting tax avoidance by multinational corporations. 

Emboldened by the plethora of new legislation and guidance passed by the United States, many countries are considering implementing a standardised global information reporting (GIR) system.

This thirty-third edition features: Publications & Announcements

In September 2013, the leaders of the G20 countries meeting in St. Petersburg endorsed the OECD’s Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Sharing (BEPS). The 15-point plan includes the following: