Call from Parliament tax committee chair for Articifical Intelligence levy The Chair of the EU Parliament’s Subcommittee on Tax matters this week called for proposals to tax Artificial Intelligence (AI).
President signs VAT increase from 20% to 23% 2025; new 19% reduced rate The Slovakian President signed on 18 October 2024 the Act implementing a 3% VAT rise from 1
Continuing debate on 2025 Budget Law draft ending threshold for 3% DST Debate is ongoing on the Italian government proposal to scrap the two-pronged threshold on its 3% Digital Services
VAT and customs loophole narrowed to dissuade cross-border shopping Switzerland is to cut from CHF 300 to CHF 150 the VAT and customs-free threshold for imports of goods. This applies
2023 data reveals €26 billion raised from OSS & IOSS 150,000 businesses The 2023 evaluation (published 14 October 2024) of the VAT e-commerce package, particularly focusing on the One-Stop Shop
Belgium Federal Public Service lists compliant Peppol accounting software for 1st January 2026 B2B e-invoicing The Belgian Federal Public Service Finance (FPS) has issued on 15 October a list of
Prime Minister say no 2025 2% VAT rate rise to curb debt The Romanian Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu, has ruled out a 2025 Value Added Tax standard rate rise. The
2025 Budget unlikely to announce reimplementing GST to replace Sales and Services Taxes Rumours of an announcement at this week’s 2025 Budget of the reintroduction of Goods and Services Tax
Turkey joins the movement to deploy AI machine learning to take on VAT and tax fraud Turkey is set to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) in its efforts to combat tax
Platform operators face VAT deemed supplier and reporting obligations from January 2026 A bill (Proyecto de Ley de Cumplimiento de las Obligaciones Tributarias) to impose new VAT deemed supplier and reporting
Many supplies shifted to new, 15% reduced VAT rate from 1 Jan 2025 The Balkan country of Montenegro has gazetted on changes to its reduced VAT rate regime. It is
Oct 2024: EC grants Germany VAT Directive emissions trading derogation extension The Council of the EU has permitted Germany to extend the domestic reverse charge on carbon emission trading to
PDF Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) delay till Jan 2026 There has been a new 1-year delay to QES, which was scheduled for 1 January 2025, announced in the recent 2025
Oct 2024: further 1-year delay on the SAF-T Accounting to 2026 (first report due 2027) Portugal has delayed again for 1-year the implementation of annual SAF-T Accounting reporting in the
200-transaction per annum threshold removed; $100k threshold remains The US state of Alaska joins most other US states in withdrawing its transaction threshold for non-resident sellers. This had been 200
2025 Budget seeks to help less well off On 7th October 2024, the Norwegian government published its 2025 Budget. This includes a range of measures to support the less well
UAE introduces 2018 retrospective VAT exemption for crypto currencies and virtual assets The UAE Federal Tax Authority recently issued an updated version of the Executive Regulation of the Federal Decree-Law
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