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Luxembourg has collected unpaid taxes as a result of a tax amnesty scheme
Luxembourg has collected over EUR30mln (approx. $36.7mln) in unpaid taxes in 2016 as a result of a tax amnesty scheme, Finance Minister Mr Pierre Gramegna has told parliament.\ Reacting to a parliamentary question, Mr Gramegna exposed that 221 applications were filed under the amnesty scheme in 2016, with a further... Read More →
Poznan office staff celebrate 5 years
We are driven by excellent people Congratulations to Anna Jankowiak and Joanna Kacprzyk on achieving 5 years of excellent service with getsix® Poznan office. Recently two of our staff members celebrated 5 years of service, so with pleasure Anna Moeglich our Chief Operating Officer of the Poznan office presented our... Read More →
Spain prolonged 4% transfer tax to the sale by consumers of second-hand goods on the internet
Spain has prolonged its ‘Impuesto de Transmisiones Partrimoniales’ (ITP) transfer tax to the sale by consumers of second-hand goods on the internet. If consumers are not VAT registered, then the 4% withholding tax relates. amavat® provides a one-stop-shop solution for VAT Compliance within Europe. We assist clients with a single... Read More →
Hungarian ‘live VAT invoice reporting’ will proceed in July 2018
Hungary advised recently that ‘live VAT invoice reporting’ will proceed from the 1st July, 2018. The requirements relate to VAT invoices above HUF100,000.00. The timing of reporting has been tightened up since the last update, and the choice to report within 24 hours of the issuance of any invoice has... Read More →
Norwegian SAF-T from the 1st January, 2020
Norway will introduce an on-demand compulsory Standard Audit File for Tax (SAF-T) requirement for taxpayers from the 1st January, 2020. The introduction of the electronic tax transaction data reporting had been planned for 2018. SAF-T has been a voluntary arrangement for providing the Norwegian tax authorities with information of tax... Read More →
Romania has applied a limited VAT ‘Split Payments’ from March 2018
Romania has applied a limited VAT ‘Split Payments’ regime from the 1st March, 2018 in an attempt to reduce VAT losses and fraud. From the 1st January, 2018, Romanian taxpayers who are in financial difficulties are required to create VAT bank accounts to securely receive VAT receipts and onwards remittance... Read More →
UK Tax News | 26.01.2018
HMRC urged to temper new VAT penalties for online retailers ‘ The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) is calling for amendments to a new government scheme to tackle VAT evasion to safeguard those that make administrative errors, but are not accused of involvement in tax evasion, are not penalised with... Read More →
EU VAT News | 25.01.2018
EU Member States to work collectively to stamp out VAT fraud Towards the end of 2017 the European Commission released new tools intended to make the European Union’s value-added tax system more resilient to fraud. The package comprises of numerous changes to how Member States will communicate and co-operate with... Read More →
EU Tax News | 24.01.2018
VAT ‘Split Payment’ benefit questioned by the EU A European Commission study into the benefits of ‘Split Payments’ as a VAT collection tool, aimed at battling VAT fraud, has cast doubt on the cost / benefits. The study concludes that the administrative and technology costs of running, tracking and reporting... Read More →
The most significant changes to Polish CIT for 2018
Capital income and its separation from other income of the taxpayer From the 1st January, 2018 within the ‘Corporate Income Tax Act’, taxpayers will be obliged to detach the operating income from the capital income. Subsequently, loss from one source will not decrease income from the other source. The provision... Read More →
