Blogs

From 1 January 2019, France extended to small and mid-sized businesses the obligation to submit VAT electronic invoices only on government supplies. This affects vendors from 10 to 250 employees...Continued

An Irish accountancy body group has proposed introducing an import deferment scheme ahead of the UK’s potential no-deal Brexit on 29 March 2019...Continued

The UK’s HMRC has announced that it has extended its Making Tax Digital for pilot testing to partnership and flat rate scheme VAT returns....Continued

Mexico has reintroduced a reduced VAT rate on its US border. The current standard rate of 16% has been reduced from 1 January 2019 to 8% for businesses providing services in the Border Region. ...Continued

Angola has confirmed plans to introduce VAT from July 2019, with only the largest tax payers obliged to charge the new consumption tax...Continued

The EU VAT Directive has been updated from 1 January 2019 to introduce a voluntary generalised reverse charge measure on domestic transactions in member states...Continued

From 1 April 2019, over 1 million UK businesses will be required to file their VAT returns via HMRC’s new Making Tax Digital (MTD) API-portal. This will require accounting software or specially enable...Continued

Texas has become the latest US state to implement Sales Tax obligations on out-of-state (non-resident) merchants. ...Continued

Following agreement by EU member states to permit cutting the VAT rate on e-books and online journals to match the reduced/zero rating permitted on their paper-based equivalents, the following countri...Continued

Iceland has confirmed that it will reduce its VAT rate from 24% to 22.5% from 1 January 2019. This will include a cut in the rate applied to e-books and online journals, which will be recatgorised fro...Continued