Blogs

The United Arab Emirates has issued guidance on its plans to allow non-resident companies to reclaim UAE VAT suffered. This follows the introduction of a 5% VAT regime at the start of 2018....Continued

Norway will no longer require non-resident businesses to provide supporting original paper invoices when making VAT recovery claims....Continued

Italy has published delayed dates for upcoming Spesometro and Esterometro filings. ...Continued

Foreign providers of digital services to Costa Rican consumers are to be included in the new 13% VAT regime being implemented from 1 July 2019....Continued

The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, confirmed in his Spring Statement that Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT will still go ahead on 1 April 2019 in the event of a no-deal Brexit on 29...Continued

South Africa is to increase the VAT registration threshold on foreign providers of electronic services to consumer from the ZAR50,000 to ZAR1million. This is calculated on a rolling 12-month calendar....Continued

EU member states have agreed to make online market places responsible for charging and collecting VAT for their non-EU sellers in a bid to recover €5bn in VAT fraud....Continued

Portugal has updated the annual data reporting rules for the resident mandatory Standard Audit File for Tax (SAF-T). ...Continued

2019 promises to be a defining year for Africa as it is on the brink of becoming a single market. ...Continued

The UK’s HMRC has provided updates on the treatment of import VAT on EU goods movements in the case of a no-deal Brexit on 29 March 2019....Continued