02/18/2020
Blacklisted jurisdictions could potentially incur a set of countermeasures from EU member states, including increased monitoring and audits, withholding taxes, special documentation requirements and anti-abuse provisions.
02/18/2020
The decision acknowledges that The Bahamas has implemented all the necessary reform to address concerns regarding economic substance, removal of preferential exemptions and automatic exchange of tax information.
02/13/2020
The base erosion and anti-abuse tax, under tax code Section 59A, is meant to discourage U.S. companies from shifting profits offshore through excessive deductible payments
02/05/2020
A new, stronger bill on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism will be tabled before the National Assembly for approval in February, a top government official said.
02/04/2020
Identified as the most prominent tax havens by the European Commission (EC) are Belgium, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg and Malta, with the Cayman Islands
01/29/2020
We are sharing office space, and will be looking at doing something a little more detailed, but cannot speak to that now as we are still awaiting regulatory approval for it.
01/29/2020
There were also 170 notices issued to POGOs found to be withholding taxes worth Php27.35 billion, with the Bureau of Internal Revenue temporarily halting the operations of four POGO service providers for failing to pay.
01/28/2020
The costs of private finance schemes are “significant”, interest rates are higher than public borrowing and companies are selling off projects without being monitored, it adds.
01/28/2020
The Tax Compliance Unit was forced to transfer one of its employees out of its investigations department, after the Panama Papers revealed the employee’s spouse was the shareholder in a British Virgin Islands-registered company