Blogs

Following the 1 January 2020 introduction in France of the obligation for marketplaces to report on the taxable supplies of their third-party sellers, the French tax office has clarified this week rep...Continued

China has proposed an update to its Value Added Tax Law. This has now gone out to public consultation by the Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration. This aim is to implement the propose...Continued

The French Inspection Générale des Finances (‘IGF’) has recommended not withdrawing the requirement of non-EU businesses with a French VAT registration to appoint a Fiscal Representative. The obligati...Continued

Oman looks set to postpone the implementation of Value Added Tax until at least 2021. A Ministry of Finance official has stated that there will be no VAT launch this year. However, the Ministry has sa...Continued

Below is a summary of the main January 2020 VAT rate and legislation changes announced around the world....Continued

Following the 2018 South Dakota vs Wayfair ruling at the US Supreme Court, most of the 45 US states which impose sales tax have updated their rules to bring in out-of-state (non-resident or foreign) s...Continued

The Nigerian government has postponed rising Value Added Tax standard rate from 5% to 7.5% of 1 January 2020.. The rise will need the agreement of the National Assembly. The increase will likely be pu...Continued

Brazil is setting up a tax reform commission to review and consolidate a number of VAT implementation bills passing through the legislator at present. The agreement by leaders of the both houses of th...Continued

Moldovia has postponed until April 2020 extending VAT collection obligations on foreign providers of e-services. The measure was due to come into effect on 1 January 2020....Continued

The French national audit office, Inspection Générale des Finances (‘IGF’), has come out against the introduction of VAT split payments as a method to limit e-commerce VAT fraud....Continued